血まみれのマリア～きんぴか（２）～: 2

きんぴか #2

by Jirō Asada

ピスケンが恋をした。お相手は、「血まみれのマリア」こと阿部まりあ。泣く子も黙る救急救命センターの看護婦長で、今まさに息絶えんとする重体患者を救うこと数知れず、の奇跡を呼ぶ女だ。あまりに意外な組み合わせに、驚きのあまり絶句する軍曹とヒデさん。一途で不器用なピスケンは、マリアのもとに通いつめるが……。悪漢小説（ピカレスク）の金字塔、佳境の第２幕！

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 20, 1999

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).