Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Rie Qudan's Akutagawa Prize winning novel about an architect who designs a Tokyo tower to serve as a prison, translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
Sympathy Tower Tokyo is a science fiction novel by Rie Qudan, published in Japan in 2024 as Tokyo-to Dojo-to. It won the 170th Akutagawa Prize. Set in a near-future Tokyo, it is told from the perspective of an architect who designs a tower in Shinjuku Gyoen garden to be used as a prison that rehabilitates criminals comfortably, and her would-be biographer. The novel contains themes concerning artificial intelligence. Jesse Kirkwood translated the English edition.
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