アンマーとぼくら

by Hiro Arikawa

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母と子、そして家族を描く感動の物語、待望の文庫化!

母の予定に付き合う約束で沖縄に里帰りしたリョウ。実の母は子供の頃に亡くなり、再婚してリョウを連れ沖縄に移り住んだ父ももういない。休暇は三日。家族の思い出の場所をめぐるうち、リョウは不思議な感覚にとらわれる。この三日が、恐らくタイムリミット。三日目が終わったら……終わったら、どうなる?


「過去は変えられない。分かるよね?」
「言いたかったことは、今の君が言えばいい」
「頑張れ。君はもう大人なんだから」

一体、ぼくに何が起こっている?

Genres: Japanese Literature

368 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2016

About the author

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels.

She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.[2][3]Her novel Shokubutsu Zukan (ja) will be adapted into a film titled Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, Hiroimashita and scheduled for release on June 4, 2016.

Reviews

[ばんび · Rating 4 out of 5]

男の子とその家族の話。
幼い頃に母親を亡くし、すぐに再婚した父のことを理解することは難しかったかも知れないけど、徐々におかあさんと打ち解けていく姿。32歳になった僕とおかあさんが過ごす3日間という不思議な時間が形に残っててよかった。沖縄の素敵さも感じれた本でした。男たちの号泣シーンがジーンときた。

[ATSUKO MAZZIOTTI · Rating 4 out of 5]

沖縄に行った気分になりました。こんな家族のかたちもあるんだな。
自分の家族をもっと大切にしようと思いました。