戌井昭人
Born 1971 · Japan
Akutagawa 2014 (first half) · Candidate
Doro ni yaito
Title translated by AI:“Moxa on Mud”
Akito Inui · 43 when first published
Novella · 148 pages
AI-generated summary:Inheriting his late father's trade as a pedlar of a cure-all moxa, a man follows the old customer list to a remote hamlet on the Japan Sea coast, misses the last bus out and must spend the night in a place that may not let him go.
Akutagawa 2013 (first half) · Candidate
Suppon shinjū
Title translated by AI:“Snapping Turtle Suicide Pact”
Akito Inui · 42 when first published
Novella · 123 pages
AI-generated summary:Tano, who has always let things slide rather than change anything, and Momo, cheerfully unfazed though she keeps getting hurt, meet by Shinobazu Pond and set out together from Ueno toward Lake Kasumigaura.
Akutagawa 2012 (first half) · Candidate
Hi'
Akito Inui · 41 when first published
Novel · 125 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:The narrator's uncle Hissan, once a yakuza apprentice, a fugitive in the Philippines, a club waiter and a hit songwriter, now lives as a recluse on a peninsula; drifting through life himself, the narrator wanders India and Nepal and comes home no wiser.
Akutagawa 2011 (first half) · Candidate
Pinzoro
Title translated by AI:“Snake Eyes”
Akito Inui · 40 when first published
Novella · 146 pages
AI-generated summary:Caught up in a crooked dice game at the Tori-no-ichi fair in Asakusa, a scriptwriter drifts, as if steered by the dice, to a run-down hot-spring town, where he ends up as the warm-up act at a seedy strip theatre and lives with an old shamisen player and her granddaughter.
Akutagawa 2009 (first half) · Candidate
Mazui sūpu
Title translated by AI:“Bad Soup”
Akito Inui · 38 when first published
Novella · 191 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Father walks out saying he is off to the sauna and never returns, leaving a foul soup made from fish he bought at Ameyoko; Mother takes to the bottle and the narrator's family teeters toward collapse, in a plight that keeps tipping into comedy.