No English yet
Jose Ando
安堂ホセ
Born 1994 · Japan
- In English
- 1 of 3
Books on prize lists
- No English yet
Akutagawa 2023 (second half) · Candidate
迷彩色の男
Meisaishoku no otoko
Title translated by AI:“The Man in Camouflage”
Jose Ando · 29 when first published
Novel · 163 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:The narrator met Ibuki in a blue-lit underground 'fight club' in Tokyo; when Ibuki is found beaten and covered in blood, the narrator tracks the 'man in camouflage' who appears to be behind the attack, through pleasure, fear, discrimination and violence.
- In English
Akutagawa 2022 (second half) · Candidate
Jackson Alone
ジャクソンひとり · Jakuson hitori
Jose Ando · 28 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Jackson, a mixed-race Black Japanese man employed as a physio at a sportswear company's gym, is assumed by everyone to be the naked man in a porn clip linked from a QR code on his T-shirt, and in looking into it he meets three others who each claim the clip shows them.