Chikuma bunko #I-87-1

Novel

Salima, an African refugee who has ended up in Australia, works at a meat packing plant while raising her two sons.Though she cannot even read or write her native language properly, she begins to study English at a job training school. There she meets "Hedgehog", a Japanese woman who followed her husband to Australia after giving up on her own dreams

Text in Japanese

dai-8-kai Ōe Kenzaburō shō jushō ; dai-150-kai Akutagawa shō kōho ; dai-29-kai Dazai shō jushō ; 2014-nen Honya Daishō dai-4-i ; Kinobesu! 2014-nen dai-2-i