三個歐吉桑

by Hiro Arikawa, 有川浩, 須藤 真澄 (Illustrator)

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2009

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

[s · Rating 4 out of 5]

20180313

#三匹のおっさん #有川浩 さん #読了

スカッとするおじいちゃんたち。孫の祐希くんもいい味出してる。キヨさんと祐希くんの素直になれない気持ちがとても身近な私には共感の嵐だった。こんなおじいちゃんたちがもっと周りにいたら心強いだろうなぁ。

[Shinya]

有川浩版ウェストゲートパーク、と父親が言っていたけれど、恋愛要素が前に出ているのは作者の特徴かな、と思った。

[Yuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series of short moral stories that three ordinary men in their sixties deal with neighborhood problems. Each case aren't far too serious, but it was really exciting because the way these guys and a boy, whose grandfather is one of them, solves problems like the Three Musketeers.

As it was an entertainment piece, the description is rough and it lacks substance. Unfortunately, it was kind of novels nothing left after reading.