- Akutagawa Prize 2004 (first half) · Winner
介護入門
Kaigo nyūmon
“An Introduction to Caregiving” (title translated by AI)
Mobu Norio (モブ・ノリオ, born 1970)
English editions
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A bleached-blond man of twenty-nine with no job looks after his grandmother at home every day; she can no longer move her legs. Sitting with her is the one thing that makes him feel he exists at all. He smokes marijuana, seethes at relatives who play at kindness and at carers who are no help, and rails against the world to his 'brothers', yet gives the old woman all the love he has.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 106 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2004 by Bungeishunju
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
9784163234601 (original)