- Akutagawa Prize 2023 (second half) · Candidate
迷彩色の男
Meisaishoku no otoko
“The Man in Camouflage” (title translated by AI)
Jose Ando (安堂ホセ, born 1994)
English editions
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In a maze of underground rooms in Tokyo, bathed in blue light and used by men for cruising and fights, the narrator met Ibuki, twenty-six. Then Ibuki is found beaten and soaked in blood. The case stays a closed box, yet it sets the narrator's days spinning and feeds a warped anger. Through desire, fear, prejudice and brutality, the narrator follows a figure that keeps surfacing behind the attack: a man in camouflage.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 163 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2023 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
- Author's age
- 29 when first published
- ISBN
9784309031415 (original)