- Akutagawa Prize 2003 (second half) · Winner
I Want to Kick You in the Back
蹴りたい背中 · Keritai senaka
Risa Wataya (綿矢りさ, born 1984)
Translated by Julianne Neville
English editions
In EnglishI Want to Kick You in the Back
One Peace Books · United States · 2015 · 199 pages
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Hatsu has just started high school and cannot fit in anywhere. Left out of a group in science class, she notices that Ninagawa, another misfit, is reading a women's fashion magazine and staring at the model Oli-chan, whom Hatsu once met in a shop in the next town. When she mentions it, Ninagawa invites her to his room, and she discovers the depth of his fandom. The feeling his hunched, defenceless back stirs in her is rougher than affection and stronger than the urge to tease, and she wants to kick it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 140 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2003 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
- Author's age
- 19 when first published
- ISBN
9784309015705 (original)
9781935548881 (One Peace Books, United States)
- More
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