Kumi Kimura

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• 雪子さんの足音

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  Akutagawa 2017 (second half) · Candidate

  雪子さんの足音

  Yukiko-san no ashioto

  AITitle translated by AI:“Yukiko's Footsteps”

  Kumi Kimura · 41 when first published

  Novel · 123 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Kaoru, visiting Tokyo for work, sees a newspaper item reporting that Yukiko, the landlady of the Koenji boarding house where he lived in his student years, died by herself in the summer heat, and as he walks back there after two decades, those years return.

• 月食の日

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  Akutagawa 2008 (first half) · Candidate

  月食の日

  Gesshoku no hi

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Day of the Lunar Eclipse”

  Kumi Kimura · 32 when first published

  Novella · 159 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:The people around a young man who is completely blind, among them a friend whose relationship with him is delicate, are portrayed through rapidly shifting points of view.