Shincho Newcomer Award しんちょうしんじんしょう
Edition 40 (2008)
Pure literatureFiction
Winners
1 peopleAn elder brother lives in darkness behind blackout curtains, while his younger brother hopes to become a stage lighting designer. Their contrasting lives reveal a fraught relationship divided by light and darkness.
A story of the distance between a brother who rejects light and another who wants to make it his work.
154 pages
brotherslight and darknessfamily conflictstage lighting