[DeepL Translation - needs review] The 134th Akutagawa Award-winning novel. Long-awaited digitization!
I'll do anything for him when it comes to work. That's what I thought when my colleague, Tacchan, died. In order to fulfill my promise, I sneak into his room. This Akutagawa Prize-winning work depicts the trust and friendship between a man and a woman who are bound together through their work. Long-awaited digitization. Includes "Labor Thanksgiving Day" and "Minami no shima no buntarou".
(Translator: DeepL)
Yet again a short story collection that won the Akutagawa Prize, with three very different stories, but I enjoyed reading them.
勤労感謝の日: This story is about unemployment and society‘s expectations regarding marriage, I’d say. However it did feel so, so short! It was 50 pages, but there were so many things hinted at, and I was really looking forward to reading the continuation of the story and to seeing the relationships develop a bit more. Which is why I don't have much more to say about the