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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akutagawa Prize | 2019 | Winner |
About This Book
A formally inventive psychological novel narrated by an unnamed woman who becomes obsessively fixated on a neighbor known only as 'the woman in the purple skirt,' a disturbing study of desire, obsession, and urban loneliness.
About the Author
Natsuko Imamura is a Japanese novelist born in 1980 in Hiroshima. She is one of the most important writers of her generation in Japan, known for fiction that engages with the experiences of women on the margins of Japanese society with compassion, psychological depth, and formal inventiveness. Imamura published her debut novel in 2012 and has gone on to produce a substantial body of work. Read more →
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