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四〇一二號室
三芳珠美：這種蠢女人都能當小說家，那我也可以！
根岸櫻子：我恨死了那個女人！我一定要爬到比她更高的地方去！
文壇天之驕女珠美，一出道就迅速走紅，也因此住進了位在所澤的高級公寓最頂層四〇一二號室。但珠美的成功，卻也讓另一位同期出道的女作家黯然失色。
櫻子這輩子從來沒有如此憎恨過一個人。新書不賣座、被編輯冷落，棲身在便宜公寓裡的她滿腦子想的都是：如果珠美能從這個世上消失該有多好！
就在所澤發生大停電的那天，珠美竟然從公寓的陽台上墜落，摔成了植物人！意外發生後，珠美的地位被櫻子取代，兩個女人的命運開始翻轉，然而這卻只不過是一連串悲劇的序幕……
《四〇一二號室》堪稱是她最重要的代表作，與《孤蟲症》、《女性朋友》並列為「高層公寓三部曲」。
根岸櫻子：我恨死了那個女人！我一定要爬到比她更高的地方去！
文壇天之驕女珠美，一出道就迅速走紅，也因此住進了位在所澤的高級公寓最頂層四〇一二號室。但珠美的成功，卻也讓另一位同期出道的女作家黯然失色。
櫻子這輩子從來沒有如此憎恨過一個人。新書不賣座、被編輯冷落，棲身在便宜公寓裡的她滿腦子想的都是：如果珠美能從這個世上消失該有多好！
就在所澤發生大停電的那天，珠美竟然從公寓的陽台上墜落，摔成了植物人！意外發生後，珠美的地位被櫻子取代，兩個女人的命運開始翻轉，然而這卻只不過是一連串悲劇的序幕……
《四〇一二號室》堪稱是她最重要的代表作，與《孤蟲症》、《女性朋友》並列為「高層公寓三部曲」。
336 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2012
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July 25, 2026
My review for another novel by the same author: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Yukiko Mari's novels have always been a bit of a 'hit or miss' for me, I can appreciate what the author tries to do but the ending results might not always be satisfying.
This time, in Room 4012, two female novelists are, directly or indirectly, competing with each other for success and fame in the merciless market of publishing. The hidden jealousy and bitterness between these two are well written and I like these two main characters and the supporting crew around them (mostly their editors and those who are in the publishing business) are quite realistic and readers can easily understand their motivation and actions along the way.
As with the author's other novels, human darkness is revealed through the storytelling, and when one of the novelists fell from her luxurious apartment building and was badly injured, did someone push her?
The murder mystery is interesting and cleverly written, it seems like all of the main characters had the chance and motive to harm the female novelist in question, but the ending turns out to be quite a surprise.
The topics about jealousy, the price of success, unfaithfulness, the pressure faced by novelists and novelist-wannabes, prostitution and the post-WWII Tokyo's local history are all handled and organised so readers can digest them one by one.
PS: Authors are horrible creatures. ^_^
Yukiko Mari's novels have always been a bit of a 'hit or miss' for me, I can appreciate what the author tries to do but the ending results might not always be satisfying.
This time, in Room 4012, two female novelists are, directly or indirectly, competing with each other for success and fame in the merciless market of publishing. The hidden jealousy and bitterness between these two are well written and I like these two main characters and the supporting crew around them (mostly their editors and those who are in the publishing business) are quite realistic and readers can easily understand their motivation and actions along the way.
As with the author's other novels, human darkness is revealed through the storytelling, and when one of the novelists fell from her luxurious apartment building and was badly injured, did someone push her?
The murder mystery is interesting and cleverly written, it seems like all of the main characters had the chance and motive to harm the female novelist in question, but the ending turns out to be quite a surprise.
The topics about jealousy, the price of success, unfaithfulness, the pressure faced by novelists and novelist-wannabes, prostitution and the post-WWII Tokyo's local history are all handled and organised so readers can digest them one by one.
PS: Authors are horrible creatures. ^_^
April 14, 2023
I always give an extra star for unforeseen plot twist as a prencple, so this is a four-star reading though reluctantly.
真梨幸子 has unique techniques of carving unlikeable female characters, in a way that makes them truly resentful and despicable, not the ‘super-cool-catwoman/Cersei Lannister-kind-of-cliche’. Their inner monstrosity is so real, especially when they showed the maximum amount of malevolence toward the smallest offense. Her way of describing their inner voices is superior.
Buuuuuuuut on the other hand, the story itself is not that interesting. It’s catching enough to make me finish it in one sitting, but won’t make me reread it. Sure, the suspense is there till the very end, but most (if not all) readers would have guessed the whole thing from the very beginning if the author hadn’t avoided mentioning the key character until the last few pages. By hiding the key character, anybody can make an ‘unpredictable plot twist’ in any book. It’s an effective but somewhat cheap technique.
真梨幸子 has unique techniques of carving unlikeable female characters, in a way that makes them truly resentful and despicable, not the ‘super-cool-catwoman/Cersei Lannister-kind-of-cliche’. Their inner monstrosity is so real, especially when they showed the maximum amount of malevolence toward the smallest offense. Her way of describing their inner voices is superior.
Buuuuuuuut on the other hand, the story itself is not that interesting. It’s catching enough to make me finish it in one sitting, but won’t make me reread it. Sure, the suspense is there till the very end, but most (if not all) readers would have guessed the whole thing from the very beginning if the author hadn’t avoided mentioning the key character until the last few pages. By hiding the key character, anybody can make an ‘unpredictable plot twist’ in any book. It’s an effective but somewhat cheap technique.
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