Hairworm

Man'ichi Yoshimura · 2003 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

A schoolteacher drifts into a relationship with a sex worker and finds his ordered life slipping from him. The story keeps to his bare, uneasy account of what the arrangement costs him. It won the Akutagawa Prize in 2003 and has not been translated into English.

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