- Akutagawa Prize 2017 (second half) · Candidate
雪子さんの足音
Yukiko-san no ashioto
“Yukiko's Footsteps” (title translated by AI)
Kumi Kimura (木村紅美, born 1976)
English editions
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In Tokyo on business, Kaoru reads in the paper that Yukiko, landlady of the Koenji boarding house where he lived as a student, has died alone in the heat. Walking back there after twenty years, he remembers how she fed her young lodgers and slipped them spending money, and how her fondness kept growing until it was too much: some took it gladly, some found it unsettling, and some came to accept it as her own children might.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 123 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2017 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9784062209830 (original)
- More
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