Final Abode

Ken'ichirō Isozaki · 2009 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

A salaried man and his wife stop speaking to each other, and the silence lasts through the years in which their house is planned and built. Time passes in compressed jumps that carry the marriage forward without explanation. It won the 141st Akutagawa Prize in 2009 and is not yet widely translated.

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