山崎ナオコーラ
Born 1978 · Japan
Akutagawa 2016 (first half) · Candidate
美しい距離 · Utsukushii kyori
Nao-Cola Yamazaki · 38 when first published
Novel · 144 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:When his wife, owner of a sandwich café and only in her early forties, learns she has incurable cancer, her husband, an employee of an insurer, spends every spare hour at her bedside, hoping she can finish her life on her own terms rather than the doctors'.
Akutagawa 2011 (first half) · Candidate
Niki no kutsujoku
Title translated by AI:“Niki's Humiliation”
Nao-Cola Yamazaki · 33 when first published
Novel · 155 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A young man becomes the assistant of Niki, a celebrated photographer a year younger than him, and is ordered about at work and in private by the haughty woman he finds himself falling for.
Akutagawa 2008 (second half) · Candidate
Te
Title translated by AI:“Hands”
Nao-Cola Yamazaki · 30 when first published
Novella · 159 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A twenty-five-year-old woman who compiles TV listings and runs a blog collecting photos of older men's faces and fingers drifts between a colleague she sleeps with but does not date and a boss thirty years her senior she dates but does not sleep with.
Akutagawa 2007 (second half) · Candidate
Katsura biyōshitsu besshitsu
Title translated by AI:“Katsura Beauty Salon Annexe”
Nao-Cola Yamazaki · 29 when first published
Novel · 153 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:At a hair salon run by Kozo Katsura, a manager who wears a wig, Junnosuke and Eri meet and become friends, in a feeling much like the start of love that may be something else, among the salon's other regulars.
Akutagawa 2004 (second half) · Candidate
人のセックスを笑うな · Hito no sekkusu o warau na
Nao-Cola Yamazaki · 26 when first published
Novella · 80 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A nineteen-year-old art-school student is drawn into an affair with Yuri, his thirty-nine-year-old teacher, driven by a tenderness he cannot quite call love.