- Akutagawa Prize 2003 (second half) · Candidate
海の仙人
Umi no sennin
“The Hermit of the Sea” (title translated by AI)
Akiko Itoyama (絲山秋子, born 1966)
English editions
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Kono has left a Tokyo department store after a lottery win and moved to Tsuruga on the Sea of Japan, where he does nothing much at all. Then a god of no particular use, who calls himself Fantasy, moves in. Two women love the withdrawn Kono: Karin, who accepts a relationship without sex, and Katagiri, a former colleague whose love goes unanswered, while he carries a sexual trauma he has yet to face.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 154 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2003 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9784104669011 (original)
- More
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