- Akutagawa Prize 2010 (second half) · Candidate
母子寮前
Boshiryō mae
“In Front of the Mother-and-Child Home” (title translated by AI)
Atsushi Koyano (小谷野敦, born 1962)
English editions
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A single call from his mother tells a man that she has lung cancer, and the following year is spent at her side. Looking for a doctor he can trust and a bed she can keep, he moves her from one hospital to the next and falls out, again and again, with physicians and relatives. Quiet hours with his wife give him some relief, but the hardest fight is with his own unhinged father, the man he has long called the Nue, after a monster of legend.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 166 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2010 by Bungeishunju
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9784163298306 (original)