- Akutagawa Prize 2021 (second half) · Candidate
オン・ザ・プラネット
On za puranetto
“On the Planet” (title translated by AI)
Daiki Shimaguchi (島口大樹, born 1998)
English editions
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Four young people pile into one car in Yokohama and drive towards the dunes of Tottori, where they mean to shoot a film. On the road they half wonder whether the world has already ended, and one of them asks what they would talk about if this were humanity's last conversation. Sharing pieces of their pasts, they turn over what it means to remember and to forget, and how a memory might be handed on to someone far away.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 174 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2021 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 23 when first published
- ISBN
9784065269459 (original)