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パズルと天気
Japanese edition
240 pages
Published May 30, 2025
About the author
Kōtarō Isaka
143 books791 followersKōtarō Isaka (伊坂幸太郎, Isaka Koutarou) is a Japanese author of mystery fiction.
Isaka was born in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the law faculty of Tohoku University, he worked as a system engineer. Isaka quit his company job and focused on writing after hearing Kazuyoshi Saito's 1997 song "Kōfuku na Chōshoku Taikutsu na Yūshoku", and the two have collaborated several times. In 2000, Isaka won the Shincho Mystery Club Prize for his debut novel Ōdyubon no Inori, after which he became a full-time writer.
In 2002, Isaka's novel Lush Life gained much critical acclaim, but it was his Naoki Prize-nominated work Jūryoku Piero (2003) that brought him popular success. His following work Ahiru to Kamo no Koin Rokkā won the 25th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers.
Jūryoku Piero (2003), Children (2004), Grasshopper (2004), Shinigami no Seido (2005) and Sabaku (2006) were all nominated for the Naoki Prize.
Isaka was the only author in Japan to be nominated for the Hon'ya Taishō in each of the award's first four years, finally winning in 2008 with Golden Slumber. The same work also won the 21st Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
Isaka was born in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the law faculty of Tohoku University, he worked as a system engineer. Isaka quit his company job and focused on writing after hearing Kazuyoshi Saito's 1997 song "Kōfuku na Chōshoku Taikutsu na Yūshoku", and the two have collaborated several times. In 2000, Isaka won the Shincho Mystery Club Prize for his debut novel Ōdyubon no Inori, after which he became a full-time writer.
In 2002, Isaka's novel Lush Life gained much critical acclaim, but it was his Naoki Prize-nominated work Jūryoku Piero (2003) that brought him popular success. His following work Ahiru to Kamo no Koin Rokkā won the 25th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers.
Jūryoku Piero (2003), Children (2004), Grasshopper (2004), Shinigami no Seido (2005) and Sabaku (2006) were all nominated for the Naoki Prize.
Isaka was the only author in Japan to be nominated for the Hon'ya Taishō in each of the award's first four years, finally winning in 2008 with Golden Slumber. The same work also won the 21st Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
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June 17, 2026
很棒的短篇集！
如果你的確是喜歡伊坂這種風格的人，這本不會讓人失望，新讀者也可以從這本試試看，因為也有幾則都是很久之前寫的（當然本次有進行改寫等），如果可以藉由這幾則短篇來激起興趣那很棒呢，像我就邊看著邊想說要再去拿舊作出來看。
《透明北極熊》這篇，一開始就猜到了大概發生什麼事情，結果到後面還是忍不住哭了。
如果你的確是喜歡伊坂這種風格的人，這本不會讓人失望，新讀者也可以從這本試試看，因為也有幾則都是很久之前寫的（當然本次有進行改寫等），如果可以藉由這幾則短篇來激起興趣那很棒呢，像我就邊看著邊想說要再去拿舊作出來看。
《透明北極熊》這篇，一開始就猜到了大概發生什麼事情，結果到後面還是忍不住哭了。
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