- Akutagawa Prize 2007 (first half) · Candidate
わたくし率 イン 歯ー、または世界
Watakushiritsu in hā, mata wa sekai
“My Ego Ratio in Teeth, or the World” (title translated by AI)
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born 1976)
English editions
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A young woman has decided that people think not with their brains but with their teeth, in her case one healthy back molar. She becomes a dentist's assistant, daydreams about her boyfriend Aoki and writes a diary for the child she has yet to have. Her voice spills out in rhythmic Osaka dialect, worrying at the gap between two words for 'I' and insisting that, whatever she dreams of being, her self stays packed in that tooth. Plus a second story.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 133 pages in the original
- First published
- 2007 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9784062142137 (original)