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沈黙のひと

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吉川英治文学賞受賞、小池文学の最高峰
幼い頃に家を出て、新しい家族を持った父は晩年パーキンソン病を患い、最期は口を利くこともできずに亡くなった。遺された手紙や短歌から見えてくる、後妻家族との相剋、秘めたる恋、娘である「私」への想い。父の赤裸々な「生」を振り返ることで、生きる意味、死ぬ意味、そして、家族という形のありようが見え、物語世界に光が差し込んでくる──。
恋愛小説を中心に、濃密な心理描写で知られる作者の新境地ともいえる本作中に引かれた短歌は、亡くなられた作者の実父が実際に詠んだもの。作者の「何か不思議な力が書かせた作品で、私にとっての生涯の勝負作です」との言葉の通り、心の奥底を静かに、深く揺さぶる傑作

397 pages, Paperback Bunko

First published May 10, 2012

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Mariko Koike

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小池真理子 Mariko Koike is a popular detective and horror novelist. Koike was born in Tokyo and graduated from Seikei University. Her first collection of essays was Recommendations to Women of the World and it became a bestseller. She has been a novelist since her novel came out in 1986. Several of her novels have been translated in to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

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