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Yuko Takenaka

竹中優子

Born 1982 · Japan

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    Akutagawa 2024 (second half) · Candidate

    ダンス

    Dansu

    Title translated by AI:“Dance”

    Yuko Takenaka · 42 when first published

    Novella · 120 pages

    AI-generated summary:Irritated at having to cover for three colleagues in her section who keep calling in sick, a young woman learns from one of them, the older Ms Shimomura, about the love triangle among the three, and is dragged along in Shimomura's wake.