Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
戦後の出発と女性文学 (第11巻)
"Shimai" is a novel by Futami Azeyanagi, based on her own schoolgirl years, about the growth of two sisters with contrasting temperaments. Published in 1954, it received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and was later adapted for film. Against the background of Hokkaido's nature, family life, and school, the sisters learn to trust one another while carrying their differences.
Work Information
An autobiographical novel that depicts Hokkaido's landscape and the trust of girlhood through the growth of contrasting sisters.
"Shimai" is Futami Azeyanagi's representative novel, published in 1954 and awarded the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award. CiNii confirms a 1959 Kadokawa Bunko edition of 216 pages. The novel is also reprinted in volume eleven of Yumani Shobo's "Sengo no Shuppatsu to Josei Bungaku" series as a full-length work not included in collected editions, with ISBN 9784843309322. Based on the author's schoolgirl experience, it depicts differences in temperament between sisters, family circumstances, and the pain of growing up in a plain realist style, and has been reread within postwar women's writing.
Book Information
- Publisher
- ゆまに書房
- Published
- 2003-06-01
- Pages
- 273 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784843309322
- ISBN-10
- 484330932X
- Price
- 11000 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
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