続 横道世之介

by Shūichi Yoshida

バブルの売り手市場に乗り遅れ、バイトとパチンコで食いつなぐこの男。横道世之介、24歳。いわゆる人生のダメな時期にあるのだが、彼の周りには笑顔が絶えない。鮨職人を目指す女友達、大学時代からの親友、美しきヤンママとその息子。そんな人々の思いが交錯する27年後。オリンピックに沸く東京で、小さな奇跡が生まれる。

409 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 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.

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