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Akutagawa 2019 (second half) · Candidate
幼な子の聖戦
Osanago no seisen
Title translated by AI:“A Small Child's Holy War”
Yusuke Kimura · 49 when first published
Novel · 219 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:Disillusioned with Tokyo and with a new religion he almost believed in, Shiro returns to his home village and becomes a councillor, but blackmailed by a prefectural assemblyman he is forced to sabotage the mayoral campaign of his reformist childhood friend Jingo.