命運之人 下

by Toyoko Yamasaki, 山崎豐子, 王蘊潔 (Tranlator)

纏訟多年，桃色洩密案最後結果出爐！
三審判決採訪手段違法，前記者弓成亮太無罪變有罪！

對一般人來說，這不過又是一樁政治黑幕或媒體醜聞，不管有沒有日美密約或者誰洩密、誰跟誰上床，等到風平浪靜，日子還是會照樣過下去。但是對於弓成亮太而言，這場襲捲他整個人生的風暴彷彿永無止息。

雖然一審獲判無罪，弓成仍然被迫向報社遞出辭呈，歸還了他最珍視的記者證，與妻子之間也形同分居。然而，儘管失去了一向自傲的記者身分、失去了家庭後盾，面對檢方上訴的挑戰，他對自己秉持的新聞良知始終堅定不移，沒想到經過漫長的二審、三審，耗費了數年歲月而身心俱疲的他，最後等到的卻竟然是「有罪」！

這樣的結果讓他至今以來所相信的一切徹底崩潰了！在極度灰心之下，他甚至想被大海吞噬，但冥冥之中，滾滾浪潮卻將他推向了另一個截然不同的世界。在這個遠離故鄉的南方島嶼上，原本封閉起自己、一心只想專注於當下的弓成，無意中碰觸到了島上居民不堪回首的過往，那一聲又一聲悲傷的傾訴，令曾經放棄掉人生的他，再次感受到體內熊熊燃起的記者魂……

「為了維持政權的面子，可以這樣摧毀一名報社記者的生命嗎？」就是基於這個想法，即便寫作過程備極艱辛，山崎豐子仍堅持要完成這部書。她特地選擇沖繩作為背景，這個你我既熟悉又陌生的日本離島，既是故事的終點，也是命運的起點。而真實人生不也是如此？即使命運選擇了我們，我們仍然可以選擇主宰自己的人生！

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Toyoko 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.