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Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award よしかわえいじぶんがくしょう

Edition 5 (1971)

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Keita Genji げんじ けいた award

口紅と鏡、幽霊になった男 is a 小説 by 源氏鶏太. It follows human lives shaped by memory, social pressure, and the atmosphere of postwar Japan, presenting its subject through a restrained but persistent narrative voice.

口紅と鏡、幽霊になった男 looks closely at pain, endurance, and will under the shadows of its time.

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