- Akutagawa Prize 2022 (second half) · Candidate
開墾地
Kaikonchi
“Cleared Land” (title translated by AI)
Gregory Khezrnejat (グレゴリー・ケズナジャット, born 1984)
English editions
No English yetNo English translation found yet.
Russell has come home to South Carolina from his studies in Japan, to a garden overrun by kudzu, heavy Southern air and sad music. He thinks about the road his father took from Iran to settle here, and about the languages between them, his father's first tongue, his own and the Japanese he chose, unsure whether he is chasing something or fleeing it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 90 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2022 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9784065311684 (original)