- Akutagawa Prize 2013 (first half) · Candidate
砂漠ダンス
Sabaku dansu
“Desert Dance” (title translated by AI)
Sumito Yamashita (山下澄人, born 1966)
English editions
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After seeing a desert on television, a man from the snowy north flies to an old American casino town, rents a car and drives into the desert, where he meets himself as a child, his dead parents and the woman from his local bar he never dared invite along.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 127 pages in the original
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2013 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9784309022093 (original)