Risun (Kodansha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] A heartbreaking conversation that takes place in the hospital room of a sister who is hospitalized for a long period of time with bone marrow cancer. If only this story had been written by a female patient in the same hospital room, the two of them would have shared a deep bond, even though they are not actually brother and sister.... This is a full-length work that is a counterpart to the Akutagawa Prize-winning "Asatte no Hito" in order to fight against the artifice of novels that involve the author herself.

骨髄癌におかされて長期入院中の妹の病室内で繰り広げられる、他愛なくも切ない会話。実の兄妹ではないながらも深い絆で結びついた2人のやりとりが同じ病室の女性患者によって書かれた物語であったなら…。作者自身をも巻き込む小説の作為に抗うための、芥川賞受賞作『アサッテの人』と対をなす長編。