- Akutagawa Prize 2000 (first half) · Candidate
楽天屋
Rakuten'ya
“The Optimist” (title translated by AI)
Yoshihisa Okazaki (岡崎祥久, born 1968)
English editions
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A man past thirty who has never cut the cord drifts through life without working, wandering in the company of the unpredictable women he takes up with and longing to be anywhere but here.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 265 pages in the original
- First published
- 2000 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 32 when first published
- ISBN
9784062102148 (original)