石田千
Born 1968 · Japan
Akutagawa 2015 (second half) · Candidate
Ie e
Title translated by AI:“Homeward”
Sen Ishida · 47 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Shin, studying sculpture as a graduate student in Tokyo, was raised on the Niigata coast by his mother and the man she lives with unmarried, whom he calls Grandpa, while keeping close ties with his real father on an island, until the arrangement begins to trouble him.
Akutagawa 2011 (first half) · Candidate
Amerikamura
Sen Ishida · 43 when first published
Novella · 170 pages
AI-generated summary:Travelling to Osaka to escape her fear that her illness will return, Michiko suddenly feels her body fail, and finds herself thinking of a young man she had always disliked, a friend bent on an elite business career.
Akutagawa 2011 (second half) · Candidate
Kinari no kumo
Title translated by AI:“Unbleached Clouds”
Sen Ishida · 43 when first published
Novel · 210 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Having lost a love that mattered to her and with it the will to live, Samiko slowly finds her way back, starting with an avocado stone sprouting in water and through the residents of her old apartment block and the women at her knitting class.