すなまわり

A boy so devoted to sumo that he cuts out every item about it, down to the gossip, and skips homework to watch the bouts, decides he will never have the build for the ring and leaves school to train as a referee, a gyoji, in a sumo stable. The novella follows his youth inside this closed world, thrilling and tedious in turns, all sweat and sand. A second story follows a young man on his own, drifting towards idleness, with its own dry humour.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

125 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2013 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9784163825403 (original)