Women's Literary Award じょりゅうぶんがくしょう
Edition 1 (1962)
Novel
Winners
1 peopleOne of Kiku Amino's major works. It observes the illness and death of a younger stepsister who became the proprietress of a prosperous inn, portraying familial loss not through easy sentiment but through restrained observation and deep mourning.
While watching a younger stepsister's illness and death, the work quietly inscribes family memory and loss.
345 pages
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