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那片藍天下

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初めて乗った飛行機で、少年は兄の無事を一心に祈っていた。空は神様に近いぶん、願いが叶う気がして――。機上で、田舎の駅で、恋人が住んでいた町で。ささやかな、けれど忘れられない記憶を描いた12の短編と、東南アジアから北米まで、6つの町での出会いをつづったエッセイの詰め合わせ。ANAグループ機内誌『翼の王国』人気連載をまとめた、懐かしくいとおしい、旅情を誘う作品集。

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

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Shūichi Yoshida

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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.

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這本書是這作家的書中,我看過最愉快的一本。不知道作家本身寫的時候有沒有這樣的心情?但至少我看的時候,不是我本身心情愉快,而是作者的取材,或者是故事主角的遭遇,都沒有以前看的那幾本一樣揪心揪腦、生命像是腳上綁了鉛塊,用拖的都走不了的感覺。

這次還有好幾篇是作者的「短遊記」,寫了曼谷、龍坡邦(寮國)、奧斯陸、臺北、胡志明市、瑞士。還有以這其中某些地點的小說,像是跟女朋友分手後跑來前女友最常來的臺灣旅遊,是那種在地讀者很容易就感同身受、對號入座的小說。

另外,好幾篇的場景都是在飛機上或者機場:結婚多年的男子巧遇後面幾排座位上的老情人;媽媽探視第一次離家念大學的兒子,返程飛機上看到新手媽媽和嬰兒;首次獨自搭機到夏威夷去參加好友婚禮的女子,下定決心用剩餘的時間獨自旅行;看著蜜月的新婚丈夫,在藍天朗朗下,突然對完全不符合年輕時設想的丈夫充滿愛意。

當然緬懷、追念還是作者挺拿手的項目。男子回憶大學時從學長手上橫刀奪愛過來的女朋友,不多久分手畢業後卻還是不時見面。直到最後一次,女子跟他說已經有喜歡的人,不要再見面。他還充滿疑惑想著,那之前女子為何從不拒絕他見面的要求呢?

「有時候就是因為不喜歡,才能滿不在乎的見面。」(p.52)

所言甚是。

這是本總體上來說,充滿「樂觀質感」的小說,看完後,心情可以舒坦一陣子。
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