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Taiko Nakajima

中島たい子

Born 1969 · Japan

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2005 (first half) · Candidate

    この人と結婚するかも

    Kono hito to kekkon suru kamo

    Title translated by AI:“I Might Marry This One”

    Taiko Nakajima · 36 when first published

    Novella · 168 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:Whenever a man catches her eye, a single woman is certain she may marry him, and she is always mistaken; she swears off her hunches, only to find herself drawn at once to Ken from her English class.

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2004 (second half) · Candidate

    漢方小説

    Kanpō shōsetsu

    Title translated by AI:“A Herbal Medicine Story”

    Taiko Nakajima · 35 when first published

    Novel · 138 pages

    AI-generated summary:Minori, a thirty-one-year-old single screenwriter, is gripped by an unexplained trembling on the day she hears her ex-boyfriend is getting married, and when hospitals find nothing wrong she ends up at a clinic of traditional Chinese medicine.