Lit in Translation

So Kurokawa

黒川創

Born 1961 · Japan

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2002 (first half) · Candidate

    イカロスの森

    Ikarosu no mori

    Title translated by AI:“The Forest of Icarus”

    So Kurokawa · 41 when first published

    Novel · 189 pages

    AI-generated summary:A man looks back on a journey of his teens and on the people he briefly met and lost in a remote town of northern Sakhalin, a place of harsh nature where memory seems to have been left behind.

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Candidate

    もどろき

    Modoroki

    So Kurokawa · 39 when first published

    Novel · 160 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Years after his father's suicide outside the family rice shop in Kyoto, a man follows the memories of three generations, his grandfather's, his father's and his own, around a shrine called Modoroki near the Shiga border.