地標

by Shūichi Yoshida, 吉田修一, 劉亭言 (Translator)

一齣上演在都市、未來、現代，描繪人間疏離與荒蕪的寫實劇

關東平野中央、開發建設中的大宮之地上，
樓高三十五層的螺旋大樓直挺勃立其間。
與妻漸行漸遠的設計師犬飼、整日配戴著貞操帶的建築工隼人，
看似平行無交集的兩人，卻同時因這座向天旋去的巴別塔，
積累的不安、孤獨與慾望隨之扭曲，終至崩壞。

建築工隼人離鄉背井，輾轉來到東京近郊的工地討生活。有天心血來潮，買了一副陽具貞操帶配戴，從此過著每天承受下體脹痛的生活。隨著大樓逐漸堆高，隼人的焦慮與不安瀕臨爆發邊緣……

參與螺旋大樓建設的設計師犬飼，離開妻子獨自住在大宮車站前的飯店。生活安定、事業有成的他，總感到莫名空虛，家庭只是名義上的空巢，唯有外遇及不斷高築的大樓才能填補那心中永不滿足的黑洞。

直到有天，一椿意外的發生，使得支撐他身心內外的高塔逐漸傾斜、崩塌……

232 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 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.