- Akutagawa Prize 2021 (first half) · Candidate
水たまりで息をする
Mizutamari de iki o suru
“Breathing in a Puddle” (title translated by AI)
Junko Takase (高瀬隼子, born 1988)
English editions
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Itsumi realises her husband has given up bathing: tap water smells wrong to him, he says, and makes his skin itch. She has him rinse off with bottled water, but soon he goes out whenever it rains and comes home drenched. When his smell becomes office gossip, his mother blames the marriage. He resigns, and they move to Itsumi's home town, near the river he has been visiting, where washing in it becomes part of his day.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 136 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2021 by Shueisha
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
9784087717693 (original)