The Japan TimesFeb 22, 2025
In her collection, Akutagawa Prize-winning author Tomoka Shibasaki juggles with specificity and vagueness through almost comically long full sentence titles and unnamed characters who often disappear altogether. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/02/22/books/tomoka-shibasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #tomokashibasaki #pollybarton #japaneseliterature #translatedfiction
'A Hundred Years and a Day': Short stories unfold through the lives of structures and spaces

In Tomoka Shibasaki’s curious collection, time flows architecturally, plots meander by design and humans are unnamed, ephemeral and often disappear.

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