中ちゅう間かん小しょう説せつ

noun

middle-brow novel

A Japanese literary category between pure literature (純文学) and popular fiction (大衆小説); often focuses on everyday life with literary quality but broad appeal.

• 中ちゅう間かん小しょう説せつは純じゅん文ぶん学がくと大たい衆しゅう小しょう説せつの間あいだに位い置ちするジャンルだ。

  The middle-brow novel is a genre positioned between pure literature and popular fiction.

• 彼かの女じょは中ちゅう間かん小しょう説せつの書かき手てとして知しられている。

  She is known as a writer of middle-brow novels.