Shinde inai mono
By: Takiguchi Yūshō
Published: 2016
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9784163904122
Subjects: Japanese fiction; Fiction; Families; Bereavement; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Description: A large extended family gathers for the funeral of the patriarch, who has died at the age of 85. The action centers on a wake held the night before at a country meetinghouse near the old mans home. The dead mans wife Shinobu pre-deceased him by 14 years. Otherwise, the narrator divides his attention more or less evenly among the mans survivors, from the 60-year-old eldest son Haruhisa down to the three-year-old great-grandson Shūto, illumining each individuals views on family, and on life and death.
Notes: In Japanese.

Dai 154 kai (2016)Akutagawa shō.