- Akutagawa Prize 2015 (second half) · Winner
Picnic in the Storm
異類婚姻譚 · Irui kon'intan
Yukiko Motoya (本谷有希子, born 1979)
Translated by Asa Yoneda
English editions
In EnglishPicnic in the Storm
Corsair · United Kingdom · 2019 · 209 pages
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Childless, without paid work, she leads an easy life as a housewife, until the day she sees that her face has turned into a copy of her husband's. He has announced that home is where he refuses to think, and he spends his evenings deep-frying food in vast amounts. Little by little the edges between them smudge. With wry humour and a touch of venom, the story looks at the strange pull of marriage, where two separate people merge into one, and at her unease with it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 166 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2015 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
9784062199001 (original)
9781472154354 (Corsair, United Kingdom)