帰国熟女
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.
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
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The story is positioned as one of the 1979 All Yomimono Newcomer Prize winners.
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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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