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Akutagawa 2017 (first half) · Candidate
真ん中の子どもたち
Mannaka no kodomotachi
Title translated by AI:“Children in the Middle”
Wen Yuju · 37 when first published
Novel · 163 pages · Coming of age, Migration
AI-generated summary:Kotoko, nineteen, the Japan-raised daughter of a Taiwanese mother, studies Mandarin in Shanghai and befriends two classmates who also straddle Japan, Taiwan and China, while 'standard' Chinese makes her feel anything but standard.