- Akutagawa Prize 2009 (second half) · Candidate
犬はいつも足元にいて
Inu wa itsumo ashimoto ni ite
“The Dog Is Always at My Feet” (title translated by AI)
Omori Brothers (大森兄弟)
English editions
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Pestered by a clingy classmate named Sada, a middle-school boy sometimes takes the big black dog his divorced father left behind to a secret spot deep in the bushes, where a reeking, unidentifiable piece of 'meat' lies buried.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 146 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2009 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
- ISBN
9784309019468 (original)