Books (novels and essays) Japanese literature> I'M ALONE!

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Japanese Literature
Japanese Literature
Awarded the 158th Akutagawa Prize in 2017
Awarded the 54th Bungei Prize
The 74-year-old Momoko lives alone.
There is nothing to be afraid of now.
At the age of 24, just three days before her marriage, Momoko left her hometown like being pushed out to the Tokyo Olympics fanfare.
Fifty years have passed since she arrived at Ueno Station with her own body. Live-in part-time job, meeting and marriage with Shuzo, the birth and growth of two children, and the death of her husband.
"How will I live on my own from now on? What do I do if I'm in trouble?"
As she sips tea and listens to the sound of mice in a new housing in the suburbs of the city where she has been accustomed to living for 40 years, voices from inside and outside of Momoko gush like a jazz session.
Love for her abandoned hometown, her estranged son and daughter, and her deceased husband. At the end of her trembling sorrow, Momoko arrives --