- Akutagawa Prize 2011 (first half) · Candidate
これはペンです
Kore wa pen desu
“This Is a Pen” (title translated by AI)
Toh EnJoe (円城塔, born 1972)
English editions
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The narrator, a university student, says her uncle is made of letters, and means it. He seems to have grown rich from a machine that writes on its own, and he turns out prose from the oddest stuff. His messages to her keep coming: some by hand, others as magnets cut with characters, as typewriter balls, even as strands of DNA, leading her toward where words begin.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 173 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2011 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9784103311614 (original)