小谷野敦
Born 1962 · Japan
Akutagawa 2014 (second half) · Candidate
Nue no ita ie
Title translated by AI:“The House Where the Nue Lived”
Atsushi Koyano · 52 when first published
Novel · 124 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A man looks back with loathing on his father, an ex-artisan with a screw loose, as the old man dies a wretched death, and tracing where his hatred began, he also finds things to love in him.
Akutagawa 2010 (second half) · Candidate
Boshiryō mae
Title translated by AI:“In Front of the Mother-and-Child Home”
Atsushi Koyano · 48 when first published
Novel · 166 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:After one phone call brings news of his beloved mother's lung cancer, a man spends her last year moving her between hospitals, fighting with doctors and family, and locked in a ferocious struggle with the father he calls 'the Nue'.