- Akutagawa Prize 2013 (second half) · Candidate
鼻に挟み撃ち
Hana ni hasamiuchi
“A Pincer Attack on the Nose” (title translated by AI)
Seiko Ito (いとうせいこう, born 1961)
English editions
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By Hijiri Bridge in Ochanomizu, a noseless man behind a mask holds forth without end about Gogol and Meisei Goto, and a passer-by, masked like everyone else, stops and keeps listening; each of them has his own reasons. The speech loops through commentary and digression, memoir-like passages slip in beside the fiction, and the line between the speaker and his listener starts to blur.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 168 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2013 by Shueisha
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
9784087715552 (original)