Published in 2024 (first published 2020)
208 pages
Natsuko Imamura (今村 夏子, Imamura Natsuko, born 1980) is a Japanese writer. She has been nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize, and won the prize in 2019. She has also won the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kawai Hayao Story Prize, and the Noma Literary New Face Prize.
What is this book about?
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.
Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit.
Nami evades her classmates’ playground game of acorn-throwing.
Happy decides she’s not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her sofa.
Each of these three stories begins in a reasonable place-but by the end you’ll find yourself in another world altogether.
