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父と私の桜尾通り商店街
違和感を抱えて生きるすべての人へ。不器用な「私たち」の物語。
桜尾通り商店街の外れでパン屋を営む父と、娘の「私」。うまく立ち回ることがきず、商店街の人々からつまはじきにされていた二人だが、「私」がコッペパンをサンドイッチにして並べはじめたことで予想外の評判を呼んでしまい……。（「父と私の桜尾通り商店街」）
全国大会を目指すチアリーディングチームのなかで、誰よりも高く飛んだなるみ先輩。かつてのトップで、いまは見る影もないなるみ先輩にはある秘密があった。（「ひょうたんの精」）
平凡な日常は二転三転して驚きの結末へ。
『こちらあみ子』『あひる』『星の子』と、作品を発表するたびに読む者の心をざわめかせ続ける著者の、最新作品集！
収録作品
・白いセーター
・ルルちゃん
・ひょうたんの精
・せとのママの誕生日
・モグラハウスの扉（書き下ろし）
・父と私の桜尾通り商店街
桜尾通り商店街の外れでパン屋を営む父と、娘の「私」。うまく立ち回ることがきず、商店街の人々からつまはじきにされていた二人だが、「私」がコッペパンをサンドイッチにして並べはじめたことで予想外の評判を呼んでしまい……。（「父と私の桜尾通り商店街」）
全国大会を目指すチアリーディングチームのなかで、誰よりも高く飛んだなるみ先輩。かつてのトップで、いまは見る影もないなるみ先輩にはある秘密があった。（「ひょうたんの精」）
平凡な日常は二転三転して驚きの結末へ。
『こちらあみ子』『あひる』『星の子』と、作品を発表するたびに読む者の心をざわめかせ続ける著者の、最新作品集！
収録作品
・白いセーター
・ルルちゃん
・ひょうたんの精
・せとのママの誕生日
・モグラハウスの扉（書き下ろし）
・父と私の桜尾通り商店街
- GenresJapanese Literature
240 pages, Tankobon Hardcover
First published February 22, 2019
About the author
Natsuko Imamura
9 books257 followersSee: 今村 夏子
Natsuko Imamura is a Japanese writer. She has been nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize, and won the prize in 2019. She has also won the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kawai Hayao Story Prize, and the Noma Literary New Face Prize.
Natsuko Imamura is a Japanese writer. She has been nominated three times for the Akutagawa Prize, and won the prize in 2019. She has also won the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kawai Hayao Story Prize, and the Noma Literary New Face Prize.
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May 6, 2026
Blessed are the meek
Imamura's stories always seem to center around characters plagued by temerity, clumsiness, isolation, naivety, and their own ugly purity. in the interview appended to the end of the book, Imamura admits that even though she sets out to write different characters, when she finishes a story and reads it back, she realizes she's written the same type of person again. but it's these awkward, timid characters that make an Imamura story an Imamura story.
in this sense, 父と私の桜尾通り商店街 is another collection of great Imamura stories. yet, one of these stories, added later in the 文庫本, stands out as particularly different and not so Imamura. 冬の夜 tells the story of a new mother, starting from the days in the hospital right after giving birth. but that's all i can really do to describe it, as it's unlike any of her other stories, and thus, i don't have the equipment to understand it. from all i've read thus far, this is the only story where Imamura switches perspective, and she does it twice, the first time to the perspective of the mother's hospital roommate, the second time to the baby's grandmother (the mother's mother). as i stated, i'm quite sure to make of it, but if anything, it's a story that invites multiple readings.
Imamura's stories always seem to center around characters plagued by temerity, clumsiness, isolation, naivety, and their own ugly purity. in the interview appended to the end of the book, Imamura admits that even though she sets out to write different characters, when she finishes a story and reads it back, she realizes she's written the same type of person again. but it's these awkward, timid characters that make an Imamura story an Imamura story.
in this sense, 父と私の桜尾通り商店街 is another collection of great Imamura stories. yet, one of these stories, added later in the 文庫本, stands out as particularly different and not so Imamura. 冬の夜 tells the story of a new mother, starting from the days in the hospital right after giving birth. but that's all i can really do to describe it, as it's unlike any of her other stories, and thus, i don't have the equipment to understand it. from all i've read thus far, this is the only story where Imamura switches perspective, and she does it twice, the first time to the perspective of the mother's hospital roommate, the second time to the baby's grandmother (the mother's mother). as i stated, i'm quite sure to make of it, but if anything, it's a story that invites multiple readings.
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