[DeepL Translation - needs review] The 57th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature
Winner of the 64th Mainichi Art Award
This body is the last convenience of civilization.
Twenty-nine years old, female, single, from a rural area, a non-regular worker.
She gave up her womb, her freedom, and her dignity to a stranger and became a "surrogate mother" in Tokyo, but she had nothing to lose.
Riki is a 29-year-old woman who left her nursing job in Hokkaido to take a clerical job at a hospital in Tokyo,...
