土の中の子供 (The Boy in the Earth)

Fuminori Nakamura (born September 2, 1977) is a Japanese novelist renowned for his psychologically intense crime fiction exploring existential themes, influenced by Kafka and Dostoyevsky. He gained international acclaim with novels like The Thief (Kenzaburō Ōe Prize, 2010), The Gun (Shinchō Young Writer Prize, 2002), and The Boy in the Earth (Akutagawa Prize, 2005), alongside other notable works such as Evil and the Mask, Last Winter, We Parted, and My Annihilation. Nakamura, who graduated from Fukushima University in 2000, continues to publish actively from Tokyo, with over two dozen books in Japanese and several translated into English.