In English
Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Winner
The Bear and the Paving Stone
熊の敷石 · Kuma no shikiishi
Toshiyuki Horie · 36 when first published
Novella · 123 pages
AI-generated summary:On a stay in France, a Japanese man goes to see Yan, a friend from years ago, in a rural town, and encounters the Jewish past bound up with Yan's family, along with Yan's landlady and her small son, who is blind.