ランドマーク

by Shūichi Yoshida, 吉田修一

大宮の地にそびえたつ地上３５階建ての超高層ビル。それはフロアがねじれながら、巨大な螺旋を描くという、特異な構造をもっていた。設計士・犬飼と鉄筋工・隼人、ふたりの毎日もビルが投影したかのように不安定になり、ついにゆがんだ日常は臨界点を超える。圧巻の構想力と、並はずれた筆力で描く傑作長編。（講談社文庫）

173 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 16, 2004

About the author

Shūichi Yoshida (吉田 修一) was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album Doberman. His 2007 novel Villain won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and was recently adapted into an award-winning 2010 film by Lee Sang-il.