- Akutagawa Prize 2006 (second half) · Candidate
その街の今は
Sono machi no ima wa
“That Town, Now” (title translated by AI)
Tomoka Shibasaki (柴崎友香, born 1973)
English editions
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Uta is twenty-eight. Her employer went bust, and she now waits tables in a café. Heading home from her first group date, a total disaster, she bumps into Ryotaro, who is younger than her. They start meeting now and then over old pictures of Osaka, a habit she likens to an addiction: she longs to know how her streets once looked, in a city forever rebuilding itself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 141 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2006 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
9784103018315 (original)