Akutagawa 2017 (second half) · Candidate
愛が挟み撃ち
Ai ga hasamiuchi
Title translated by AI:“Love in a Pincer”
Shiro Maeda · 40 when first published
Novel · 187 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Married six years, Kyoko, thirty-six, and Shunsuke, nearly forty, cannot have a child, and Shunsuke, who doubts that love exists but cannot let go of the idea of Kyoko becoming a mother, proposes a startling solution involving a second man.