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女系家族（下）（新潮文庫）
長女藤代は踊りの師匠の梅村を相談相手にして、遺産相続を自分に有利にしようと画策する。それまでの慎ましやかだった性格からは想像できないきつい態度にでる次女の千寿。そこに番頭の思惑と、妾文乃が妊娠していた事実がからまって泥沼の様相を深めてゆく。だが、嘉蔵が生前周到に準備していた「胎児の事前認知」という驚天動地の方法によって金の亡者たちの野望に断が下される。
370 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 30, 2002
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Toyoko Yamasaki
131 books21 followersToyoko Yamasaki (山崎 豊子, real name Sugimoto Toyoko; 3 November 1924 – 29 September 2013) was a Japanese novelist.
A native of Osaka, Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She published her first story, Noren (1957), a story of a kelp trader, based on the experiences of her family's business. The following year, she won the Naoki Prize for her second novel Hana Noren, the story about the founder of an entertainment group. A major influence on her writings of that period was Yasushi Inoue, who was deputy head of the Mainichi Shimbun's cultural news desk.
Yamasaki wrote some stories based on actual events. For example, Futatsu no Sokoku is derived from the biography of a Japanese American David Akira Itami, and Shizumanu Taiyō is based on the Japan Airlines Flight 123 accident. Several works of hers were featured in films and television dramas.
A native of Osaka, Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She published her first story, Noren (1957), a story of a kelp trader, based on the experiences of her family's business. The following year, she won the Naoki Prize for her second novel Hana Noren, the story about the founder of an entertainment group. A major influence on her writings of that period was Yasushi Inoue, who was deputy head of the Mainichi Shimbun's cultural news desk.
Yamasaki wrote some stories based on actual events. For example, Futatsu no Sokoku is derived from the biography of a Japanese American David Akira Itami, and Shizumanu Taiyō is based on the Japan Airlines Flight 123 accident. Several works of hers were featured in films and television dramas.
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March 14, 2021
一般來說我挺喜歡看這種勾心鬥角的戲碼，但不知為何到了中期便有種看不下去的感覺，後來才發現是因為除了過世父親的可憐妾室，我沒辦法從任何爭鬥的一方找到除貪婪外的核心價值。因此許多方的爭鬥並沒有展現出價值觀的碰撞，只是無盡的貪念在互相交纏，端看誰的手段跟騙術較為高明罷了。也因此小說中後段大概就能猜出可憐小妾結尾會有張王牌令前面這些盤算、謀畫徹底翻盤，更讓我想跳過中間的計策跟財產清點。
不過，也或許作者就是想要描述利益導向的女系家庭中的成員如何攪動或捲進這漩渦中，畢竟也不是每件事都需要高尚的動機支撐，但有趣的是貪婪的眾人都會揮舞著「公平」的旗幟要求分配到更多。但真的有分配是能夠完全公平的嗎?就像最後翻盤前取得的共同協議，其合意基準仍是建立在某種程度的哄騙上，讓各方相信自己獲得的比別人多、比別人好，是否所謂民主社會也是建立在這種欺瞞上呢?
不過，也或許作者就是想要描述利益導向的女系家庭中的成員如何攪動或捲進這漩渦中，畢竟也不是每件事都需要高尚的動機支撐，但有趣的是貪婪的眾人都會揮舞著「公平」的旗幟要求分配到更多。但真的有分配是能夠完全公平的嗎?就像最後翻盤前取得的共同協議，其合意基準仍是建立在某種程度的哄騙上，讓各方相信自己獲得的比別人多、比別人好，是否所謂民主社會也是建立在這種欺瞞上呢?
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