Kayoko Yamazaki's "Belgrade Diary" - Winner of the Yomiuri Literary Award! Pearls of Words Spun from Life in Serbia after the Airstrikes
What did the author, a poet, see and feel in the city of Belgrade after the Yugoslav conflict and NATO bombing?
The casual, everyday life that continues after the conflict.
In the words that describe the daily life, the shadow of the conflict gradually appears and disappears...
I think this work is very rare in that it captures the daily lives of people who still live there, rather than easy-to-understand "special events. It is a wonder that it does not merely cut out everyday life, but also gives us a sense of the depth of human life.
I thought it was quite plausible that this work won the Yomiuri Literary Award. This work has a mysterious power.