- Akutagawa Prize 2009 (first half) · Candidate
あの子の考えることは変
Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen
“That Girl Has Strange Ideas” (title translated by AI)
Yukiko Motoya (本谷有希子, born 1979)
English editions
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Meguriya, twenty-three, works part-time and has built her sense of self around her G-cup bust. Her flatmate Hida, the same age, a virgin who styles herself a memoirist, ignores her looks and broods over how she smells and over dioxin fumes from a nearby incinerator. Meguriya cannot leave her be: only Hida grasps her fixation on men and the moments when she feels near to cracking. Side by side they scrape through sorry, lonely days.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 139 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2009 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
9784062156387 (original)