- Akutagawa Prize 2006 (first half) · Candidate
Love at Least
生きてるだけで、愛。 · Ikiteru dake de, ai
Yukiko Motoya (本谷有希子, born 1979)
Translated by Kamil Spychalski
English editions
In EnglishLove at Least
Soft Skull · United States · 8 September 2026 · Paperback · 112 pages
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Yasuko is twenty-five and wonders why merely existing wears her out. Like her mother, she swings between highs and lows; the lows keep her asleep for hours and mostly indoors. She moved into Tsunaki's place after a drinking party, and three years later she is still there. Then his former girlfriend turns up, demands that they break up and keeps pushing Yasuko to stand on her own two feet. Beneath it all lies a craving to be understood that rarely gets through.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 140 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2006 by Shinchosha
- Author's age
- 27 when first published
- ISBN
9784103017714 (original)
9781593768317 (Soft Skull, United States)
- More
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