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天国までの百マイル (朝日文庫)
バブル崩壊で会社も家族も失ったろくでなしの中年・城所安男。心臓病の母の命を救うため、安男は天才的な心臓外科医がいるというサン・マルコ病院めざして百マイルを駆ける感動の物語。
105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 1998
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Jirō Asada
229 books27 followersJirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.
Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.
In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.
He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).
Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.
In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.
He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).
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May 13, 2010
A simple tearjerker--
I don't have much to say about this book. A down-and-out former CEO of a now bankrupt real estate company tries to save his mother by driving her to a faraway hospital where a genius heart doctor can fix his mother's heart.
The emotional gut appeal is right there and yes, you guessed it, you'll cry toward the end for sure. You KNOW what Asada Jiro is up to, but you can't help crying. It's pretty powerful.
It's a good simple story that, to me at least, lacks depth and lingering resonance after you put it down.
Good, but not his best.
I don't have much to say about this book. A down-and-out former CEO of a now bankrupt real estate company tries to save his mother by driving her to a faraway hospital where a genius heart doctor can fix his mother's heart.
The emotional gut appeal is right there and yes, you guessed it, you'll cry toward the end for sure. You KNOW what Asada Jiro is up to, but you can't help crying. It's pretty powerful.
It's a good simple story that, to me at least, lacks depth and lingering resonance after you put it down.
Good, but not his best.
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