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裸足

Bungakukai Newcomer Award

裸足

Satoko Kizaki

A foundational short story for Satoko Kizaki, it leaves an impression through the quiet gaze brought back after her return to Japan and through its close attention to a woman’s inner life. Rather than chasing major events, it catches the faint tremors of memory and loss.

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Work Information

It brings a single woman’s outline into view with quiet, careful language.

Satoko Kizaki’s debut work, which won the Bungakukai Newcomer Award in 1980. Confirmed in a 1982 Bungei Shunjū edition, it is read as the quiet starting point of the style that would lead to her later representative works.

Book Information

Publisher
文藝春秋
Published
1982-11-01
Pages
253 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784163072005
ISBN-10
4163072004
Price
4996 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

第51回(1980年) 文學界新人賞受賞

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