The Akutagawa Prize 2024 Nominees
admin サンショウウオの四十九日 (The 49th Day of the Salamander) by 朝比奈秋 (Aki Asahina) – talks about two sisters who share the same body. 海岸通り (Coastal Road) by 坂崎かおる (Kaoru Sakazaki) – about…
Gliff by Ali Smith (2024)
The narrator's name is Alan in the present and Briar in the past, which occurred five years earlier. The narrator recounts the moment their mother left them with her friend…
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (2023)
The book is divided into four parts, spanning time periods from 1864 to 1874, concluding with an epilogue set in 1883. To simplify, events are recounted chronologically rather than in…
My Husband (Mon Mari) by Maud Ventura (2021)
Our wife narrator and her husband are 40, have been happily married for 15 years. They are the perfect couple, he works in finance, they have two perfect 7 and…
The Rehersals by Annette Christie (2021)
Megan and Tom met at Harvard twelve years ago and immediately fell in love. Unlike so many other of their friends who wanted to spend their 20s exploring, they were…
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran (2016)
COCOON is a coming-of-age novel set in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan centering on the lives of two childhood best friends from the post-80’s generation, Li Jiaqi and Cheng…
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021)
The book starts in the early 1900’s and follows Captain Addison Graves, who escaped a life at the family farm by going to sea as a young man. As luck…
A Good Safe Place for Visitors by Kristen Roupenian
The novel opens in 2012, when Chris has just received word that Ruth, a woman he met while on his ill-fated trip to Kenya, is delivering a lecture in Michigan.…
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins (2023)
In 2018, our journalist narrator begins constructing the facts of the case of FOSTER DADE (16), a second-year transfer to the Kennedy School in New Jersey. The narrator arrived as…
Fakturan (The Invoice) by Jonas Karlsson (2011)
In Sweden, the narrator receives a large bill for over five million kronor. Assuming it is a mistake he goes about his life, working in a video store. Eventually he…