- Akutagawa Prize 2011 (second half) · Winner
Cannibals
共喰い · Tomogui
Shinya Tanaka (田中慎弥, born 1972)
Translated by Kalau Almony
English editions
In EnglishCannibals
Honford Star · United Kingdom · 2024 · Paperback · 81 pages
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In a small town on a river, seventeen-year-old Toma shares a house with his father and Kotoko, the woman his father lives with. He is seeing Chigusa, a year older, whom he has known since they were small. His father strikes Kotoko when they have sex, and Toma tells himself again and again that he is not that kind of man. But an urge he does not understand stirs inside him and grows harder to hold down, in a place with no way out.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 140 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2011 by Shueisha
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9784087714470 (original)
9781915829092 (Honford Star, United Kingdom)
- More
- Wikidata