Abstract

The first picture book by Naoki Prize-winning novelist Shino Sakuragi.

This work depicts the fact that you were born, raised, gave birth to a child, and eventually grew older, all of which are inevitable, that is, important steps between generations.
A book that gently tells you when a girl becomes a woman and forgets when she gets old.

Author’s Information

Shino Sakuragi
She was born in 1965 in Hokkaido. She won the 2002 All Yomimono Prize for New Writers for her short story "Yukimushi" [Snow Bugs]. Her first book, a short story collection including “Yukimushi” titled “Hyoheisen” [Frozen Horizon], appeared in print in 2007. She won the 19th Shimase Award for Love Stories for “Loveless” in 2013, and also won the 149th Naoki Prize for “Hotel Royal” in the same year. In 2020, She won the 15th Chuokoron Literature Prize for “Kazoku Jimai”[Family Closing]. Other her novels include “Garasu no ashi” [Reed of Glass], “Kishūteneki(Tāminaru)”[Terminals], and “Kori no wadachi“[Tracks in the Ice].

Mika Ozawa
Illustrator