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Erika Kobayashi

小林エリカ

Born 1978 · Japan

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    Akutagawa 2014 (first half) · Candidate

    マダム・キュリーと朝食を

    Madamu Kyurī to chōshoku o

    Title translated by AI:“Breakfast with Madame Curie”

    Erika Kobayashi · 36 when first published

    Novel · 181 pages · Speculative, Historical

    AI-generated summary:A stray cat that has wandered to a city in the east perceives radiation as light, and Hina, a girl whose birth coincided with the 2011 disaster, comes from women who hear it as sound; together they roam across time and place through the story of energy, from Marie Curie to Edison.