7月24日大道

by Shūichi Yoshida, 吉田修一, 曹姮 (Translator)

爽やかな王子様vs.地味でイケてない私 この恋の主役になっていいの？

リスボンの街並みと少女まんがを愛するOL・小百合は妄想世界で満足していたが、クリスマス前に憧れの先輩と大接近！地味体質ゆえに恋から逃げ出しそうで……！？

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2004

About the author

Shūichi Yoshida (吉田 修一) was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album Doberman. His 2007 novel Villain won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and was recently adapted into an award-winning 2010 film by Lee Sang-il.

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an easy read with relatively plain plot. Though it has interesting twists (I'd rather consider them ripples than twists), the story resonates with my life. I do not have a popular sibling and am less inclined to yell / show my emotions in front of strangers. Somehow the main character and I both have a job that we don't find important, we also have the same difficulties in turning people's requests down.

Thanks to these female characters, they all give me massive courage to figure out what I want to do.

[Kyoungjin Lim · Rating 3 out of 5]

情けないと言いながら愛しいと感じるのはなぜ？