吉田修一
Born 1968 · Japan
Akutagawa 2002 (first half) · Winner
Pāku raifu
Shuichi Yoshida · 34 when first published
Novella · 176 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A young man who spends his breaks in Tokyo's Hibiya Park runs into the woman he once spoke to by mistake on the subway, and their chance meetings there, kept at a careful distance, make the familiar scenery come painfully alive.
Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Candidate
Nettaigyo
Title translated by AI:“Tropical Fish”
Shuichi Yoshida · 32 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Daisuke, a carpenter, moves in with a beautiful single mother and hopes to marry her, but his withdrawn stepbrother, who spends his days watching tropical fish, joins the household, and a gap starts to open between the couple.