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Akutagawa 2026 (first half) · Candidate
ソリティアおじさんがいた頃
Soritia ojisan ga ita koro
Title translated by AI:“Back When Solitaire Man Was Around”
Yu Murashi · 47 when first published
Novel · 133 pages
AI-generated summary:One winter morning, a woman who works for a miso maker in Kyoto hears that Mr Kuronoda, the colleague she secretly called 'Solitaire Man', has died in a fire, and after attending his wake she makes a decision about a drifting relationship and a job going nowhere.