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Akutagawa 2002 (first half) · Candidate
西日の町
Nishibi no machi
Title translated by AI:“Town of the Setting Sun”
Kazumi Yumoto · 43 when first published
Novella · 133 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In a Kitakyushu town in the mid-1960s, ten-year-old Kazushi and his young mother are joined by Tekojii, his grandfather, a man who has lived without rules and who now crouches silently in a corner of their room, full of secrets.