Subaru Literary Award すばるぶんがくしょう
Edition 21 (1997)
Winners
2 peopleA young woman who hopes to become a painter seeks independence but drifts from job to job and reaches an impasse in her art. Through dependency and shared life with others, she confronts the instability and reality of living as an adult.
A young aspiring painter, longing for independence, continues to waver at the threshold of adult life.
A female literature student follows traces of the novelist I, whom she has chosen as the subject of her graduation thesis, through Shimokitazawa. In a neighborhood where two private railways intersect, the relationships between writer and reader, writing and reading, slip past one another and form a linguistic labyrinth.
Along the path of a female student wandering Shimokitazawa, where the novelist I lives, rumor, fiction, and reality intersect.