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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akutagawa Prize | 2020 | Winner |
About This Book
Written in breathless, fragmented prose mirroring a narrator's psychological state, follows a young woman's all-consuming obsession with a pop idol and its catastrophic consequences for her life, exploring fandom and parasocial relationships.
About the Author
Rin Usami is a Japanese novelist born in 1993 in Shizuoka Prefecture. She is one of the youngest writers to win the Akutagawa Prize and one of the most internationally recognized Japanese writers of her generation. Her fiction is known for its intense psychological focus and its exploration of the inner lives of young women at moments of crisis. Read more →
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