- Akutagawa Prize 2022 (second half) · Winner
荒地の家族
Arechi no kazoku
“Families of the Wasteland” (title translated by AI)
Atsushi Sato (佐藤厚志, born 1982)
English editions
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More than a decade after the sea surged over his coast and carried off his livelihood, Yuji Sakai, a gardener of forty, still works as if to punish himself. His wife died of an illness two years after the disaster, and he and his son barely know how to talk. A new seawall stands where the water came in, and people speak of getting their old lives back, but he cannot say when that old life even was, or why he is the one who lived.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 158 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan, 2020s
- First published
- 2022 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9784103541127 (original)