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Winner of the 2020 Akutagawa Prize

Idol, Burning

by Rin Usami

Recorded edition: Canongate Books · 2022 · ISBN 9781838856144 · Edition source

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Fiction

2020 winner

Akutagawa Prize

Japan · second-half

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