- Akutagawa Prize 2011 (first half) · Candidate
ぴんぞろ
Pinzoro
“Snake Eyes” (title translated by AI)
Akito Inui (戌井昭人, born 1971)
English editions
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A scriptwriter is dragged into a rigged dice game at an Asakusa fair and lets chance carry him to a faded spa town far from Tokyo. There, somehow, he becomes the man who warms up the crowd at a shabby strip theatre, and he settles into an odd, dreamlike life under one roof with Ruri, an old shamisen player, and Ricchan, her granddaughter.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 146 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2011 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9784062171977 (original)