天國旅行

by Shion Miura, 三浦紫苑, 丁世佳 (Translator)

只有直視過死亡帶來的絕望，才能體會生存所產生的羈絆。

愛的終極證明就是一起死去嗎？
人在對現實絕望，走投無路的時候，會想去什麼地方呢？
捨棄一切，走到不能再走的地步，就能得到救贖嗎？

三浦紫苑挑戰「殉情」主題，直視死亡的極限狀態，悄悄在每個人心中點亮希望的短篇集！

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

248 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not yet reached her 30th birthday—an unusually young age for this prize; in fact it was her second nomination. Her novels since then include the 2006 Kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru (The Wind Blows Hard), about the annual Ekiden long-distance relay race in which universities compete, and the 2010 Kogure-so monogatari (The Kogure Apartments), depicting the lives of people dwelling in an old rundown wooden-frame apartment house. In 2012 she received the Booksellers Award for the novel Fune o amu (The Great Passage), a tale about compiling a dictionary. A manga aficionado, Miura has declared herself a particular fan of the "boys' love" subgenre about young homosexual encounters.

Source: http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/...

Reviews

[Sara Chen · Rating 4 out of 5]

這本書的各個短篇都充斥著不尋常的死亡元素，卻在這樣看似黑暗的題材中，加入許多令人好奇的情節（靈異、懸疑、超現實），讓人忍不住一篇接一篇看，且各篇不同的死亡都能跟溫暖的情感相連在一起，讀起來很豐富。

最喜歡的是〈初盆的客人〉，講述過世的奶奶生前經歷的愛情故事，既能感受到大時代的動盪，也能感受到舊時代長輩的堅忍不拔，故事的發展足夠離奇，確實讓我意想不到，讀到最後關於緣分的描寫又能會心一笑，屬於會想再看一次的段落。
題材上最喜歡的是〈你是夜晚〉，講述一個晚上會在夢中過著不同生活的人，而這段夢中的經歷雖然辛苦且似乎包藏詭計，但是主角非常嚮往，而夜晚的第二人生影響到主角白天的正常生活。這篇的結局讓我期待故事能夠再長一點。

[W.M.]

我的確喜歡著三浦紫苑吧，他那種充滿感情卻不失現實，殘酷又溫柔的書寫角度。
這本是短篇輯，也所以安排的順序看到最後有點驚嚇到我，竟然使用了這樣順序啊，那種作者更多把思考生／死／愛情的空間推回給讀者的成熟，沒有序沒有後記無法得知究竟是三浦先生本身的安排還是出自編輯手筆，但那個反思的力道的確後勁很強。
是很漂亮的短篇哩。

[Ally Yang · Rating 4 out of 5]

[2023.01.18_11]

愛情會隨著對象的愛恨或毫無反應而增加或消失，但戀慕可以自己一個人要陷多深就陷多深。〈火焰〉

對別人沒有期待的人，自然沒辦法回應別人的期待。〈SINK〉

或許編造一個新的故事也不錯，因為他還要繼續活下去。要是記憶無法消除的話，起碼可以隨他高興竄改看看。〈SINK〉

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[Irene · Rating 2 out of 5]

一樣，短篇小說的問題，我難以駕馭。