- Akutagawa Prize 2013 (second half) · Winner
The Hole
穴 · Ana
Hiroko Oyamada (小山田浩子, born 1983)
Translated by David Boyd
English editions
In EnglishThe Hole
New Directions · United States · 2020 · 92 pages
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A young woman gives up her job and moves with her husband to his home town in the country. One scorching summer day she follows a black animal she cannot name and falls into a hole in the riverbank that reaches her chest. After that the people around her seem slightly off: Mrs Sera, who smells of sweet incense, her husband's silent grandfather, forever watering the garden, and a stranger who says he is her husband's brother.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 157 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2013 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
9784103336426 (original)
9780811228879 (New Directions, United States)
- More
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