August Prize おーがすとしょう
Edition 19 (2007)
Winners
3 peopleSet in a ward where people face the end of life together, the novel quietly observes aging, mortality, and memory. Its restrained prose carries a deep question about how to face the final stage of life.
What does a person reconsider while waiting for the end?
A biography centered on Mayakovsky that traces the crossing of culture and politics in post-revolutionary Russia. Based on careful research, it shows how the poet’s intensity and the violence of the era shaped one another.
Through the poet’s life, the heat and darkness of revolutionary Russia come into view.
A quiet search picture book in which the sibling relationship shifts from spread to spread. The pleasure comes from both the strange landscape and the joy of finding what was hidden in it.
There is something to find in every corner of the page.