幸福な生活

by Naoki Hyakuta, 百田 尚樹

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単行本未掲載「賭けられた女」を新たに収録

「ご主人の欠点は浮気性」帰宅すると不倫相手が妻と談笑していた。こんな夜遅くに、なぜ彼女が俺の家に？　二人の関係はバレたのか？　動揺する俺に彼女の行動はエスカレートする。妻の目を盗みキスを迫る。そしてボディタッチ。彼女の目的は何か？　平穏な結婚生活を脅（おびや）かす危機。俺は切り抜ける手だてを必死に考えるが……。（「夜の訪問者」より）
愛する人の“秘密”を描く傑作集！

Genres: Japanese Literature, Fiction

274 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011

About the author

Associated Names:
* Naoki Hyakuta
* 百田 尚樹 (Japanese)
* 百田尚樹 (Chinese)

Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial. Hyakuta has written a number of other books, several of which have been turned into films, such as Bokkusu and Monsuta.

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each story is very short so it was so easy to go through this book. There were couple of days I got a bit tired of it because each story was too short and I was consuming too many quick stories with plot twists. But I liked it. I think it’s be a great book to read when you have a reading slump book. The one story that creeped me out was おとなしい妻and I thought the ビデオレターwas cool too lol.

[BaiLing · Rating 3 out of 5]

19個短篇小說。故事的開始、發展往往都平順無奇，但就像逛遊樂園的鬼屋般，期待的「嚇一跳」，總是會在結尾中出現。

各式各樣的平凡角色擔任敘述的主體：有和失智母親對話的長子，發現早年家暴卻失蹤的父親「真正的下落」；有遲婚以為撿到寶的平凡女性，帶著新婚丈夫到好友家拜訪/炫耀，卻從資深的社會新聞記者的好友丈夫口中，得知毫無缺點的丈夫的「真正身分」；有大企業董娘在臨終前錄了卷帶子，娓娓道來她發現丈夫當年設計拆散她的婚約但結婚後卻外遇不斷，她如何讓丈夫不知情地戴上綠帽，撫養自己和前未婚夫所生的三個兒子；還有偷吃不斷的丈夫，最後才知道一直以為好欺負不知情的太太，其實對他的偷腥歷史瞭若指掌……

故事的脈絡，大致就是以為「最了解的最親近的人，最後卻爆出最不可思議的秘密」。用這基調寫出的19個故事，閱讀的最大樂趣就在末了的「真相大白」。

之後呢？

完了！沒啦！

然後下個故事登場。

[推理小青柑 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Facebook的推理群裡某大大推薦了這本幸福生活，作者為百田尚樹。

我一開始以為這是什麼治癒暖心系小說之類的書，傻傻錯過，現在知道自己錯得離譜。

雖然不是說每個故事都一樣驚艷（有些還是挺容易猜的）不過喜歡短篇、喜歡有衝擊力「最後一句話」的讀者千萬不能錯過這本！！

P.S. 出版社也太用心了，十九個短篇的最後一句都故意排版到後面一頁，哈哈，好幾次都殺我一個措手不及啊～