- Akutagawa Prize 2020 (first half) · Winner
破局
Hakyoku
“Collapse” (title translated by AI)
Haruka Tono (遠野遥, born 1991)
English editions
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A final-year student lives by discipline: he coaches younger rugby players, trains hard in the gym and will soon be job-hunting. At a comedy show a friend is in, he meets Akari, an artless first-year, and is drawn more to her than to Mariko, his clever girlfriend since childhood. Moving between the two women, he is an unlikeable narrator, polished for the world yet ill at ease in it, and the main thing in his way may be himself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 141 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2020 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
- Author's age
- 29 when first published
- ISBN
9784309029054 (original)