才能

by Mitsuyo Kakuta, 角田光代

内容简介：
什么是才能？你会因为觉得自己没有才能而陷入深深的自卑吗？
本书以过去与现在两个时间线交错穿插的形式进行讲述，分为1999年主人公美野里上大学时的"过去"以及2019年至2020年的"现在"。经由美野里的视角，讲述了与侄子、外公以及大学社团的朋友们身上所发生的各种故事，并从中探讨究竟什么才是"才能"。
美野里的前半生一直深陷自我怀疑的旋涡之中，她羡慕朋友们拥有既有意义又充满挑战的工作，而自己却受挫后一蹶不振。美野里一直被别人的才能压倒，得出自己没有才能的结论，非常自卑。但在了解了外公的故事后，美野里终于发现，所谓才能，是一种因人而异的东西，它千变万化，没有固定的形态，需要每个人用一生积极地去寻找、去探索，而不是用有或没有去简单定义。
作者简介：
［日］角田光代
日本当代著名小说家。2005年荣获直木奖。她的作品常以尖锐的选材刺入社会的痛点，又以柔和的笔触叙述当代女性人生的艰难。与吉本芭娜娜、江国香织一同被誉为当代日本文坛三大女作家。代表作有《坡道上的家》《第八日的蝉》《三月的邀请函》等。

673 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She has been working continuously as an author ever since, never having had to support herself with a separate job. Three nominations for the Akutagawa Prize serve as a measure of the promise with which she was regarded from early in her career. Then, at the encouragement of an editor, she shifted toward the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, where she garnered a much broader readership with works depicting the lives of women in her generation, from their mid-thirties to forties. After publishing two brilliant novels in 2002, Ekonomikaru paresu (Economical Palace) and Kūchū teien (Hanging Garden), she went on to win the Naoki Prize for the second half of 2004 with Woman on the Other Shore (tr. 2007). Her successes continued with The Eighth Day (tr. 2010), which received the 2007 Chūō Kōron Literary Prize and was made into a televised drama series as well as a movie; the book sold more than a million copies, vaulting her into the ranks of Japan's best-selling authors. In 2012 she added to her list of honors by earning the Shibata Renzaburō Award for her novel Kami no tsuki (Paper Moon), and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for her volume of short stories Kanata no ko (The Children Beyond).

Mitsuyo Kakuta is currently working on translating the Tale of Genji into modern Japanese.
(source: BooksFromJapan.jp)