島本理生
Born 1983 · Japan
Akutagawa 2015 (first half) · Candidate
Natsu no saidan
Title translated by AI:“Summer Shredding”
Rio Shimamoto · 32 when first published
Novel · 125 pages
AI-generated summary:Novelist Chihiro, who carries a sexual wound from her past, is tormented by Shibata, a devilish editor, until she stabs his hand with a fork at a party; to recover she goes to her late grandfather's old house in Kamakura and begins cutting up his books to scan them.
Akutagawa 2006 (first half) · Candidate
Ōkina kuma ga kuru mae ni, oyasumi
Title translated by AI:“Goodnight, Before the Big Bear Comes”
Rio Shimamoto · 23 when first published
Novella · 201 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Almost half a year after moving in with Teppei, a young woman feels not so much happy as uneasy, as though she has pushed off in a vessel that could overturn, until a petty argument brings out his violence.
Akutagawa 2003 (second half) · Candidate
Umareru mori
Title translated by AI:“The Forest Being Born”
Rio Shimamoto · 20 when first published
Novel · 165 pages · Love, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Badly hurt by a love affair, a young woman borrows a university friend's flat for the summer holidays, and a reunion with her high-school friend Kiku-chan, and with Kiku's father and brothers, slowly begins to heal her.
Akutagawa 2002 (second half) · Candidate
Ritoru bai ritoru
Rio Shimamoto · 19 when first published
Novel · 155 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Out of high school and working part-time, Fumi lives quietly with two others, her mother and a much younger sister by another father, in a household where a tangled family history now and then casts a shadow.