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Yusuke Miyauchi

宮内悠介

Born 1979 · Japan

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2017 (second half) · Candidate

    ディレイ・エフェクト

    Direi efekuto

    Title translated by AI:“Delay Effect”

    Yusuke Miyauchi · 38 when first published

    Novella · 178 pages · Speculative, War

    AI-generated summary:In a chaotic Tokyo of 2020, the wartime past has begun to overlap the present: the narrator's great-grandfather sits at a translucent low table inside his living room, and the air raid of 10 March 1945, in which his great-grandmother will burn to death, is drawing closer.

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2016 (second half) · Candidate

    カブールの園

    Kābūru no sono

    Title translated by AI:“The Garden of Kabul”

    Yusuke Miyauchi · 37 when first published

    Novella · 206 pages · Migration, Family

    AI-generated summary:Rei, a Japanese American in her late thirties who co-founded a tech company and still carries the wounds of childhood bullying and a hard relationship with her mother, is sent on leave and finds herself driving to Manzanar, the camp in which her grandparents were held.