- Akutagawa Prize 2014 (first half) · Candidate
どろにやいと
Doro ni yaito
“Moxa on Mud” (title translated by AI)
Akito Inui (戌井昭人, born 1971)
English editions
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A man has inherited his dead father's round as a pedlar of a moxa remedy that is meant to cure any ailment, and he works through the list of customers his father kept. It leads him to a village near the Sea of Japan that looks like a plain hamlet of kindly old folk, though a few of the people he meets seem to carry secrets. When he misses the bus back, he must stay the night.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 148 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2014 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9784062191050 (original)