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無限 の 医 #1
ムゲンのi
展開も結末も予測不可能な超大作ミステリー!!
若き女医は不思議な出会いに導かれ、人智を超える奇病と事件に挑む。
眠りから醒めない四人の患者、猟奇的連続殺人、少年Xの正体――
すべては繋がり、世界は一変する。
眠りから醒めない謎の病気〈特発性嗜眠症候群〉通称イレスという難病の患者を3人も同時に抱え、識名愛衣は戸惑っていた。
霊能力者である祖母の助言により、患者を目醒めさせるには、魂の救済〈マブイグミ〉をするしか方法はないと知る。
愛衣は祖母から受け継いだ力を使って患者の夢の世界に飛び込み、魂の分身〈うさぎ猫のククル〉と一緒にマブイグミに挑む――。
『崩れる脳を抱きしめて』『ひとつむぎの手』
2年連続本屋大賞ノミネートの著者、最新作!
若き女医は不思議な出会いに導かれ、人智を超える奇病と事件に挑む。
眠りから醒めない四人の患者、猟奇的連続殺人、少年Xの正体――
すべては繋がり、世界は一変する。
眠りから醒めない謎の病気〈特発性嗜眠症候群〉通称イレスという難病の患者を3人も同時に抱え、識名愛衣は戸惑っていた。
霊能力者である祖母の助言により、患者を目醒めさせるには、魂の救済〈マブイグミ〉をするしか方法はないと知る。
愛衣は祖母から受け継いだ力を使って患者の夢の世界に飛び込み、魂の分身〈うさぎ猫のククル〉と一緒にマブイグミに挑む――。
『崩れる脳を抱きしめて』『ひとつむぎの手』
2年連続本屋大賞ノミネートの著者、最新作!
352 pages, Tankobon Softcover
First published September 1, 2019
About the author
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51 books2 followers1978年、沖縄県生まれ。東京都在住。東京慈恵会医科大学卒、日本内科学会認定医。2011年、第4回島田荘司選ばらのまち福山ミステリー文学新人賞を『レゾン・デートル』で受賞。12年、同作を改題、『誰がための刃』で作家デビュー（19年『レゾンデートル』として文庫化）。「天久鷹央」シリーズが人気を博し、15年『仮面病棟』が啓文堂文庫大賞を受賞、ベストセラーに。『崩れる脳を抱きしめて』『ひとつむぎの手』『ムゲンのi（上・下）』で、18年、19年、20年本屋大賞連続ノミネート。『優しい死神の飼い方』『時限病棟』『リアルフェイス』『レフトハンド・ブラザーフッド』『誘拐遊戯』『十字架のカルテ』『傷痕のメッセージ』など著書多数。今もっとも多くの読者に支持される、最注目のミステリー作家。
「2021年 『硝子の塔の殺人』 で使われていた紹介文から引用しています。」
「2021年 『硝子の塔の殺人』 で使われていた紹介文から引用しています。」
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July 11, 2023
(This review is based on both halfs of the story, book one and two.)
Auugggghhhhh. This story has SUCH a great concept,--doctor travels into the dreams of her coma patients to save their souls--but the writing was SO boring.
It started great but 700 pages of constant repetition, cliche drama and cheap cliffhangers just made me frustrated. I ended up skipping paragraphs any time well established information was repeated--so...a lot.
Anything to do with the patients' memories was great, but every time the protagonist got involved I just wanted to shake her. Too often she did things and said things because the story needed her to, not because it made sense for the character.
I really wanted to like this story but poor writing really let it down.
Auugggghhhhh. This story has SUCH a great concept,--doctor travels into the dreams of her coma patients to save their souls--but the writing was SO boring.
It started great but 700 pages of constant repetition, cliche drama and cheap cliffhangers just made me frustrated. I ended up skipping paragraphs any time well established information was repeated--so...a lot.
Anything to do with the patients' memories was great, but every time the protagonist got involved I just wanted to shake her. Too often she did things and said things because the story needed her to, not because it made sense for the character.
I really wanted to like this story but poor writing really let it down.
December 14, 2022
I like Mikito Chinen’s stories especially ones that were accompanied by animals. I loved “黒猫の小夜曲” (Transliteration: Black Cat’s Serenade) and “優しい死神の飼い方” (Transliteration: How to tame a gentle reaper) so much. This is my third book by him.
Protagonist is a young woman, Ai, who is a doctor. She treats three patients with strange disease called “ILES” (Idiopathic Lethargy Syndrome: patient keeps sleeping for long time, sometime for a lifetime, without awakening). Their onset was in proximity and in a same day (or close in timing? I forgot, but Ai has three patients with this rare disease simultaneously). Ai was struggling to find the cause or treatment but reached to a hypothesis that the state of sleeping is triggered by their mental state, or sudden and huge stress so they lost their soul. When her power as a soul salvager awakens, she’s able to enter patients’ dream to find and save patients’ soul. Accompanied by her is a cat-rabbit like creature, Kururu, who is a soul-doubles (shadow of her soul).
Once I started the book, I remember one disease I’ve heard of, “Resignation Syndrome.” Wiki description quote “a catatonic condition that induces a state of reduced consciousness, first described in Sweden in the 1990s. The condition affects predominately psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Young people reportedly develop depressive symptoms, become socially withdrawn, and become motionless and speechless as a reaction to stress and hopelessness. In the worst cases, children reject any food or drink and have to be fed by feeding tube, the condition can persist for years.”
It shows that if people lost hope to live, they shut down functions to live, which is similar condition as ILES. On the first book (this one), Ai will be treating two patients. She and her cat-rabbit search for the soul and triggered memory, and encounter patients’ fear or regret which has foams and is scary. The story is so imaginative and magical (like I could never ever come up with the setting myself) with realism like hospital, detective, or courthouse. I love magical realism, so I was intrigued so much by the setting.
One frustration was that Ai sometimes says something inconsistent. In one time she is determined to enter the scary place, but another time she’s not. She convince Kururu to go in the dark, but when Kururu says “let’s go further”, she chickens out. Then every time Kururu has to explain to ensure she’ll be ok. So I was unsure of her character if she’s courageous woman or just a chicken. Maybe we’ll find out in next book? I’ll continue.
Actual rating 3.8
Protagonist is a young woman, Ai, who is a doctor. She treats three patients with strange disease called “ILES” (Idiopathic Lethargy Syndrome: patient keeps sleeping for long time, sometime for a lifetime, without awakening). Their onset was in proximity and in a same day (or close in timing? I forgot, but Ai has three patients with this rare disease simultaneously). Ai was struggling to find the cause or treatment but reached to a hypothesis that the state of sleeping is triggered by their mental state, or sudden and huge stress so they lost their soul. When her power as a soul salvager awakens, she’s able to enter patients’ dream to find and save patients’ soul. Accompanied by her is a cat-rabbit like creature, Kururu, who is a soul-doubles (shadow of her soul).
Once I started the book, I remember one disease I’ve heard of, “Resignation Syndrome.” Wiki description quote “a catatonic condition that induces a state of reduced consciousness, first described in Sweden in the 1990s. The condition affects predominately psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Young people reportedly develop depressive symptoms, become socially withdrawn, and become motionless and speechless as a reaction to stress and hopelessness. In the worst cases, children reject any food or drink and have to be fed by feeding tube, the condition can persist for years.”
It shows that if people lost hope to live, they shut down functions to live, which is similar condition as ILES. On the first book (this one), Ai will be treating two patients. She and her cat-rabbit search for the soul and triggered memory, and encounter patients’ fear or regret which has foams and is scary. The story is so imaginative and magical (like I could never ever come up with the setting myself) with realism like hospital, detective, or courthouse. I love magical realism, so I was intrigued so much by the setting.
One frustration was that Ai sometimes says something inconsistent. In one time she is determined to enter the scary place, but another time she’s not. She convince Kururu to go in the dark, but when Kururu says “let’s go further”, she chickens out. Then every time Kururu has to explain to ensure she’ll be ok. So I was unsure of her character if she’s courageous woman or just a chicken. Maybe we’ll find out in next book? I’ll continue.
Actual rating 3.8
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