- Akutagawa Prize 2008 (first half) · Candidate
ctの深い川の町
ct no fukai kawa no machi
“The Town of ct's Deep River” (title translated by AI)
Yoshihisa Okazaki (岡崎祥久, born 1968)
English editions
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Sick of everything at forty, a man retreats to the nondescript commuter town of his youth, where nobody expects him and he feels no nostalgia. His belongings burned when the removal van caught fire, so he goes to a job interview at Noble Transport in everyday clothes, half hoping for pity, half for humiliation, and meets an old classmate across the desk. Soon he is driving slowly around familiar streets in a mock-aristocratic uniform.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 109 pages in the original
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2008 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9784062149419 (original)