Seiko Ito

Books on prize lists

• 想像ラジオ

  No English yet

  Save想像ラジオ to read later

  Akutagawa 2013 (first half) · Candidate

  想像ラジオ

  Sōzō rajio

  AITitle translated by AI:“Imagination Radio”

  Seiko Ito · 52 when first published

  Novel · 193 pages · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:At 2:46 in the morning, perched in a cedar above a small coastal town, DJ Arc begins a radio show broadcast on the waves of imagination, which only the listener's mind can pick up, in a story set after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

• 鼻に挟み撃ち

  No English yet

  Save鼻に挟み撃ち to read later

  Akutagawa 2013 (second half) · Candidate

  鼻に挟み撃ち

  Hana ni hasamiuchi

  AITitle translated by AI:“A Pincer Attack on the Nose”

  Seiko Ito · 52 when first published

  Novella · 168 pages · Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:At the foot of Hijiri Bridge in Ochanomizu, a strange man in a mask makes a passionate speech about Gogol's 'The Nose' and Meisei Goto's novel 'Pincer Attack', and as the passers-by, all masked too, listen, reality begins to warp.