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Kazushige Abe

阿部和重

Born 1968 · Japan

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2004 (second half) · Winner

    グランド・フィナーレ

    Gurando fināre

    Kazushige Abe · 36 when first published

    Novel · 200 pages

    AI-generated summary:His family torn apart since Christmas 2001, a man who has lost everything goes back to his hometown of Jinmachi, where one Sunday evening, as the passing buses begin to sound like sleigh bells, he meets two little girls.

  • In English

    Akutagawa 2001 (first half) · Candidate

    Nipponia Nippon

    ニッポニアニッポン · Nipponia nippon

    Kazushige Abe · 33 when first published

    Novel · 160 pages

    AI-generated summary:A seventeen-year-old shut-in, who feels a kinship with the endangered crested ibis because its character appears in his surname, arms himself with the internet and leaves his room with a plan of revolt centred on the bird.