- Akutagawa Prize 2018 (second half) · Candidate
戦場のレビヤタン
Senjō no Rebiyatan
“Leviathan on the Battlefield” (title translated by AI)
Bunji Sunakawa (砂川文次, born 1990)
English editions
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K, a Japanese man, has signed on to guard a British oil plant in Iraq with a gun, and sits in the back of a Range Rover heading north from Kirkuk to Erbil with the wind on his skin. The fighting in this bleak country has mostly gone quiet, but questions keep coming: why he came, where daily life ends and war begins, what divides Japan from a place like this, and who, if anyone, is his enemy.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 161 pages in the original
- Genres
- War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iraq
- First published
- 2018 by Bungeishunju
- Author's age
- 28 when first published
- ISBN
9784163909851 (original)