In English
Akutagawa 2017 (second half) · Winner
The Mud of a Century
百年泥 · Hyakunen doro
Yuka Ishii · 54 when first published
Novel · 110 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Days after Chennai's worst flood in a hundred years, a Japanese woman who teaches Japanese to young programmers elbows across a packed bridge toward her office, through silt that has engulfed whisky bottles, a mummified mermaid, Expo '70 coins and memories that may belong to others.