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帰国熟女

All Yomimono Newcomer Award

帰国熟女

岡田信子

This short story by Nobuko Okada draws on experience of life in America to portray loneliness and emotional uncertainty in a foreign city. Under a title carrying the resonance of New Orleans, movement, memory, and unease in daily life are layered with the feeling of the blues.

Americaforeign placelonelinessmovementmemory

Work Information

Against the backdrop of a foreign city, unease in daily life and memory sound low like the blues.

New Orleans Blues is a short story by Nobuko Okada. Okada had studied in the United States and worked as a state caseworker, and the story uses America as a foreign setting to depict loneliness and unease. The blues of the title suggests sadness, memory, and emotional wavering that settle in a place of travel or daily life, and the story became Okada's starting point as a fiction writer through the All Yomimono Newcomer Prize.

Review Summaries

  • The story is positioned as one of the 1979 All Yomimono Newcomer Prize winners.

  • In a later volume, the story is treated as the prize-winning work included alongside the title story.

Book Information

Publisher
文藝春秋企画出版部
Published
2008-10-01
Pages
302 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784160080577
ISBN-10
416008057X
Price
1100 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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