Shincho Newcomer Award しんちょうしんじんしょう
Edition 35 (2003)
Pure literatureFiction
Winners
3 peopleAs undelivered flyers form layers in the narrator's room, the narrator tries to complete a private fairy tale. Writing in a diary reveals that even a few days of reality have not been adequately reproduced, and a space different from reality begins to emerge.
Through piled-up flyers and a diary, reality transforms into another space.
246 pages
FlyersDiaryReality and fictionIsolationTransformation of space
Morning of Livestock is a short story by Daisuke Asao. It is included in his first story collection, Blue Sheet.
A short story included in the first collection Blue Sheet.
256 pages
short fictioncontemporary Japanese literaturestory collections