The Man of the Day After Tomorrow

Tetsushi Suwa · 2007 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

A narrator tries to reconstruct a vanished uncle who spoke in strange invented words and has dropped out of family memory. The attempt gradually shows how little of him can be recovered. It won the Akutagawa Prize and has not been translated.

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