Kaikonchi
(Book)

Not a translation. The author was born in South Carolina in 1984, moved ot Japan in 2017, got a PH.d. in Japanese literature in Japan, writes in Japanese.

880-03,"Russell returned to South Carolina from Japan where he studied abroad. Kuzu's prosperous garden, the moisture unique to the southern part, the sad music that reaches the ear -youth reminds me of how my father has taken Iran with him when he left Iran. The latest novella of the author who draws a vivid debut at the Kyoto Literature Award, depicting the use of language and separate identities devoted to use of each language one speaks." --,cataloger's translation

"Told in the second person throughout, Khezrnejat's novella centers on a young American who studies Japanese in high school and college. Yearning to return to Kyoto, where he spent two weeks at the age of 16, he applies to the JET Program, and is assigned to work as an assistant language teacher at a junior high school in a town neighboring the former capital. He moves on to work at an English conversation school, and then encounters the literature of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. The streets of Kyoto and the Kamogawa riverside form a backdrop to the main narrative." --,alternative description from various websites

In Japanese.

880-04,The 168th Akutagawa Prize candidate.