Keritai Senaka ‒ A Back I Want to Kick
Youngest Winner Ever of Akutagawa Prize
Huge Bestseller With 1,300,000 Copies Sold!
Combining popular appeal and raw talent, Risa Wataya is currently one of the most talked about young authors. If you don't know Risa Wataya, then you can't claim to know modern Japanese literature!
Huge Bestseller With 1,300,000 Copies Sold!
Combining popular appeal and raw talent, Risa Wataya is currently one of the most talked about young authors. If you don't know Risa Wataya, then you can't claim to know modern Japanese literature!
| Author | Risa Wataya |
|---|---|
| Publisher | KAWADE SHOBO SHINSHA LTD. Publishers |
| ISBN | 978 - 4309015705 |
| Category | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication | August, 2003 |
| Estimated length | 142P |
| Size | 127 × 188 mm |
| Sold to | South Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, France, Italy, US |
Risa Wataya was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 2004 at age 19 (she won together with Hitomi Kanehara’ s “Snakes and Earrings”).
Among Akutagawa Prize winning novels, Keritai Senaka became the first million seller in 28 years, since Ryu Murakami’ s “Almost Transparent Blue” won the award in 1976.
Wataya realistically portrays an adolescent girl and the discomfort she feels towards the “world”, and her delicate prose and story line supported by her expertly honed use of the five senses has won her great praise.
The story begins with an eye-catching opening line that won high praise from various sources. The main character, Hatsu, is in her first year of high school. While having trouble fitting in with her classmates, she meets “Ninagawa”, an isolated boy in her class who is heavily obsessed with pop idols. He is a huge fan of a certain fashion model, but he has no interest in the actual girls around him. Gradually, Hatsu develops an impulse towards Ninagawa, not love or infatuation, but one that can best be described as “a desire to dropkick him”.
Among Akutagawa Prize winning novels, Keritai Senaka became the first million seller in 28 years, since Ryu Murakami’ s “Almost Transparent Blue” won the award in 1976.
Wataya realistically portrays an adolescent girl and the discomfort she feels towards the “world”, and her delicate prose and story line supported by her expertly honed use of the five senses has won her great praise.
The story begins with an eye-catching opening line that won high praise from various sources. The main character, Hatsu, is in her first year of high school. While having trouble fitting in with her classmates, she meets “Ninagawa”, an isolated boy in her class who is heavily obsessed with pop idols. He is a huge fan of a certain fashion model, but he has no interest in the actual girls around him. Gradually, Hatsu develops an impulse towards Ninagawa, not love or infatuation, but one that can best be described as “a desire to dropkick him”.
Reviews
“Leaves you with a true sense of wonder.”
--Asahi Shimbun
“Wataya vividly portrays the darkness in the minds’ of today’ s high schoolers.”
--Nozomi Omori (Book Reviewer)
“It’ s difficult to put the ‘feeling of frustration’ into words, but Wataya rises to this difficult task throughout her novel.”
--Amy Yamada (Author)
--Asahi Shimbun
“Wataya vividly portrays the darkness in the minds’ of today’ s high schoolers.”
--Nozomi Omori (Book Reviewer)
“It’ s difficult to put the ‘feeling of frustration’ into words, but Wataya rises to this difficult task throughout her novel.”
--Amy Yamada (Author)
About the Author
Risa Wataya was born in 1984 in Kyoto. She debuted at a young age, receiving the Bungei Prize at the age of 17 with "Install". She has received overwhelming support from readers around their 20s. In 2008, she was selected as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (Davos Meeting).
FOREIGN EDITIONS
| Title | I Want to Kick You in the Back |
|---|---|
| Publisher | 株式会社河出書房新社 |
| Publication | April, 2015 |
| ISBN | 978 - 1935548881 |
