In English
Akutagawa 2013 (second half) · Winner
The Hole
穴 · Ana
Hiroko Oyamada · 30 when first published
Novel · 92 pages
AI-generated summary:Having left her job to live in her husband's rural hometown, a young wife chases a strange black animal one sweltering day and tumbles into a hole in the riverbank as deep as her chest, and the people around her begin to seem odd.