アンジュと頭獅王

by Shūichi Yoshida, 吉田修一

声に出して読みたくなる、圧巻の大冒険!

吉田修一の新境地ともいえる本書は、誰かのために生きる時代を模索する今だからこそ蘇る、二十一世紀版山椒太夫。古典の名作『山椒太夫』をベースに、上古も今も末代も、慈悲の心の尊さとはいかに、を現代に問う問題作だ。
あの安寿と厨子王が千年の時空を超えて繰り広げる、善の執着と悪の執着を描く大冒険は、文字を追うごとに、思わず声に出して読みたくなる圧巻の言葉とリズムにあふれている。

123 pages, 単行本

Published October 5, 2019

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.

Reviews

[Emi · Rating 3 out of 5]

「山椒大夫」の安寿と厨子王のリメイク？みたいなものかなと思っていたら、途中から予想だにしない展開だった。帯の「時空を超える大冒険！」って文字通りだったのねっていう笑 ★