Writer Yu Miri won this year's National Book Award for translated literature in the United States on Wednesday for her novel "Tokyo Ueno Station."
The novel, translated into English by Morgan Giles, depicts the life of the book's narrator Kazu, who left his family in Fukushima Prefecture to work as a laborer in the capital in preparation for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
The website of the National Book Awards said the novel "is a welcome and necessary addition to the translated Japanese canon, which unfolds in the memories of a deceased narrator occupying the eponymous train station."