現代生活独習ノート

by Kikuko Tsumura, 津村記久子

偶然録画していた興味のない番組
冷蔵庫内の陣地争い 貧弱な食事ばかりのSNS画面 資料室の籠城騒動

キラキラはしていなくても、
冴えない日常は、案外愛しく、悪くない。

短編の名手がおくる 私たちの‘今’が詰まった8つの物語

怒り、あきらめ、情けないこと、ときどきは幸せなこと
“通り過ぎていくものたちのどれかは、手になじんで輝いてくれるだろう”

収録作
「レコーダー定置網漁」
「台所の停戦」
「現代生活手帖」
「牢名主」
「粗食インスタグラム」
「フェリシティの面接」
「メダカと猫と密室」
「イン・ザ・シティ」

266 pages, Hardcover

Published November 19, 2021

About the author

Kikuko Tsumura (Japanese name: 津村記久子) is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize.

Reviews

[Page · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kikuko Tsumura is one of Japan's Akutagawa Prize-winning authors.
Akutagawa Prize is an award given to Japanese works of literature.
Her award-winning novel Potoslime's Boat,she was written extensively about Japanese workplaces and the people who work there.

Self-Study Notes on Modern Life is also a short story collection that depicts the everyday lives of ordinary people.

For example,grandmother and mother and child interact kitchen use and fridge territory Kitchen's ceasefire,these are works that revel the hidden joys of everyday life -such as Simple Meal Instagram,which portrays the feeling of someone who,constantly facing decisions at work,chooses to have the same lunch every day and posts it on social media.

I recommended it for anyone who tired "competition for advancement" or "justice and evil" or "flashy performance".Also,recommended it for anyone wants to live everyday not being serious but not joking around either.