- Akutagawa Prize 2009 (first half) · Winner
終の住処
Tsui no sumika
“The Final Home” (title translated by AI)
Kenichiro Isozaki (磯崎憲一郎, born 1965)
English editions
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A man looks back across decades of marriage. Both he and his wife had come out of a long, failed love affair before they wed, each past thirty, and being married changes nothing about how the world looks. After a drifting early phase, his wife stops speaking to him, and the silence lasts eleven years. Through his eyes come strangers met by chance, his affairs, and the booms and slumps of the pharmaceutical business.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 142 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2009 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9784103177111 (original)