壬生義士伝（下）

by Jirō Asada

南部藩を脱藩し、新選組隊士となった吉村貫一郎は鳥羽伏見の戦いで敗れ、切腹して果てた。その子、嘉一郎も脱藩者という父の汚名を雪ぐべく戊辰の役に参戦するが、南部藩は降伏。嘉一郎は、箱館へと走る。五稜郭に霧がたちこめる晩、若侍は参陣した――義士・吉村の一生と、命に替えても守りたかった子供たちの物語が、関係者の“語り”で紡ぎだされる。吉村の真摯な一生に関わった人々の人生が結実する壮大なクライマックス。第13回柴田錬三郎賞受賞の傑作長篇小説。

372 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2002

About the author

Jirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.

Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.

In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.

He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).

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