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Akutagawa 2017 (second half) · Winner
おらおらでひとりいぐも
Ora ora de hitori igumo
Title translated by AI:“I'll Go On Alone”
Chisako Wakatake · 63 when first published
Novel · 164 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Momoko, seventy-four and widowed, drinks tea alone in the suburban home of four decades, and voices speaking the dialect of her northern childhood start talking over one another in her head, carrying her back through fifty years.