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Hunchback
Saou Ichikawa, translated by Polly Barton, 2023
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A sharp, provocative novella about a severely disabled woman's desires and the ableism of the literary world. Saou Ichikawa has congenital myopathy and uses a wheelchair and ventilator, and is the first author with a severe physical disability to win Japan's Akutagawa Prize. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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Published in English by Hogarth (US) and Viking (UK). Available at many libraries and anywhere books are sold.