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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akutagawa Prize | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
A divorced man in a Tokyo apartment building becomes obsessed with a neighbor's obsession with a nearby house featured in a 1970s photo book, in a luminous meditation on memory and the past embedded in urban space.
About the Author
Tomoka Shibasaki is a Japanese novelist born in 1973 in Osaka. She is one of the most important and internationally recognized Japanese writers of her generation, known for fiction that explores urban life, loneliness, and the texture of everyday experience with quiet, observational precision. Her work has been widely translated internationally. Read more →
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