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Akutagawa 2022 (second half) · Winner
荒地の家族
Arechi no kazoku
Title translated by AI:“Families of the Wasteland”
Atsushi Sato · 40 when first published
Novel · 158 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Yuji Sakai, forty, a gardener who lost every tool to the disaster more than a decade ago and then his wife to sickness, drives his body hard at work, struggles to reach his son and keeps asking why she died while he lived.