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Women's Literary Award じょりゅうぶんがくしょう

Edition 22 (1983)

Novel

Winners

1 people
Kyoko Hayashi はやし きょうこ award

Shanghai is Kyoko Hayashi's work about revisiting, thirty-six years later, the city where she spent her childhood until shortly before the end of the war. Across a five-day stay, it brings memories of girlhood into contact with the present and measures the distance to a changed city.

Shanghai in childhood and Shanghai revisited thirty-six years later: two periods of time quietly answer each other.

440 pages
Shanghaimemories of girlhoodreturningbefore and after the war