In English
Akutagawa 2021 (first half) · Winner
The Place of Shells
貝に続く場所にて · Kai ni tsuzuku basho nite
Mai Ishizawa · 41 when first published
Novel · 145 pages
AI-generated summary:In Göttingen, a German university town under the shadow of the pandemic, a Japanese woman is visited by a friend lost in the 2011 tsunami nine years before, and the encounter starts to fold the town's memories into her own.