- Akutagawa Prize 2014 (first half) · Candidate
吾輩ハ猫ニナル
Wagahai wa neko ni naru
“I Am Becoming a Cat” (title translated by AI)
Yuta Yokoyama (横山悠太, born 1981)
English editions
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Kakeru, whose parents are Japanese and Chinese, idles in Shanghai on his own until his mother sends him to Japan to sort out his visa, and he ends up in Akihabara among the otaku. His story is told as if for Chinese students of Japanese, with no katakana, odd reading glosses and the two languages freely mixed, and its humour pokes at both countries' pop culture and at Soseki and other modern classics.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 135 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- China, Japan
- First published
- 2014 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
9784062190640 (original)