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高級タワーマンションに暮らす岩見有紗は窒息寸前だ。ままならぬ子育て、しがらみに満ちたママ友たちとの付き合い、海外出張中の夫・俊平からの離婚申し出、そして誰にも明かせない彼女自身の過去。軋んでいく人間関係を通じて、徐々に明らかとなるそれぞれの秘密。華やかな幸せの裏側に潜む悪意と空虚を暴き出す。
In her classy high-rise apartment, Arisa Iwami is on the brink of suffocation. She can't reveal to her group of weary mom friends that she's filed for divorce from her husband, Shunpei, while he's away on business and is raising their child alone - or even anything about her own past. Throughout these strained human connections, secrets begin to come to light; and the other side of a shining happiness dredges up emptiness and malice.
In her classy high-rise apartment, Arisa Iwami is on the brink of suffocation. She can't reveal to her group of weary mom friends that she's filed for divorce from her husband, Shunpei, while he's away on business and is raising their child alone - or even anything about her own past. Throughout these strained human connections, secrets begin to come to light; and the other side of a shining happiness dredges up emptiness and malice.
450 pages, Paperback
Published February 20, 2016
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Natsuo Kirino
96 books2,804 followersNATSUO KIRINO (桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages—she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. Since then, she has written thirteen full-length novels and three volumes of collective short stories, which are highly acclaimed for her intriguingly intelligent plot development and character portrayal, and her unique perspective of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble.
Today, Kirino continues to enthusiastically write in a range of interesting genres. Her smash hit novel OUT (Kodansha, 1997) became the first work to be translated into English and other languages. OUT was also nominated for the 2004 MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Novel Category, which made Kirino the first Japanese writer to be nominated for this major literary award. Her other works are now under way to be translated and published around the world.
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May 7, 2019
最近読んだどのホラーよりも怖い。ホラーじゃないんだけど、ジャンル的には。桐野夏生の作品にしてはちょっとインパクト足りない感じだけど、最初から最後まで「にんげんこわい」とピリピリしながら読んでました。
あと、男性が皆最低過ぎ。俊介とか。この展開は生き埋めにされてもいい案件だと思うんだけど…
あと、男性が皆最低過ぎ。俊介とか。この展開は生き埋めにされてもいい案件だと思うんだけど…
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