アンマーとぼくら

by Hiro Arikawa, 有川 浩

休暇で沖縄に帰ってきたリョウは、親孝行のため「おかあさん」と3日間島内を観光する。一人目の「お母さん」はリョウが子どもの頃に亡くなり、再婚した父も逝ってしまった。観光を続けるうち、リョウは何かがおかしいことに気がつく。かりゆし58の名曲「アンマ―」に着想を得た、書き下ろし感動長編。

Genres: Japanese Literature

306 pages, Tankobon Hardcover

First published July 1, 2016

About the author

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels.

She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.[2][3]Her novel Shokubutsu Zukan (ja) will be adapted into a film titled Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, Hiroimashita and scheduled for release on June 4, 2016.

Reviews

[ばんび · Rating 4 out of 5]

男の子とその家族の話。
幼い頃に母親を亡くし、すぐに再婚した父のことを理解することは難しかったかも知れないけど、徐々におかあさんと打ち解けていく姿。32歳になった僕とおかあさんが過ごす3日間という不思議な時間が形に残っててよかった。沖縄の素敵さも感じれた本でした。男たちの号泣シーンがジーンときた。

[ATSUKO MAZZIOTTI · Rating 4 out of 5]

沖縄に行った気分になりました。こんな家族のかたちもあるんだな。
自分の家族をもっと大切にしようと思いました。