가을철 한정 구리킨톤 사건 하

Shōshimin #4

by Honobu Yonezawa, 요네자와 호노부, 김선영 (Translator)

'소시민' 시리즈는 학교를 배경으로 일상의 사건들을 다룬 <빙과>의 '고전부' 시리즈와 함께 요네자와 호노부의 대표 시리즈로 꼽히는 학원 청춘 미스터리이다. <가을철 한정 구리킨톤 사건>은 작품 전체를 관통하고 있는 하나의 사건과 섬세한 캐릭터 묘사가 절묘한 조화를 이루고 있는 작품으로, 시리즈의 팬이라면 100% 만족할 수밖에 없을 정도로 구성력이 좋다.

시리즈 전권인 <봄철 한정 딸기 타르트 사건>과 <여름철 한정 트로피컬 파르페 사건>이 이전에 소개된 적이 있었지만, 이번 <가을철 한정 구리킨톤 사건>은 국내에 처음으로 소개되는 작품이다.

참견하기 좋아하는 고바토와 집념이 강한 오사나이는 공통의 목표를 가진 특별한 관계로 묶여 있다. 그것은 바로 일상의 평온과 안정을 위해 소시민의 길을 추구하는 것! 하지만 일련의 사건을 겪으며 두 사람은 헤어지게 된다. 한편 마을에서는 방화 사건이 일어나고, 사건을 다룬 교내 신문의 기사가 화제가 된다. 이 사건 어쩐지 수상한데….

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 2009

About the author

Honobu Yonezawa (米澤穂信), Yonezawa Honobu, born 1978) loved making up stories even as a child and began writing fiction at the age of 14. By the time he got to university he was posting stories on his own website. After graduation he continued writing while working in a bookstore, and first got into print in 2001 when Hyoka (Ice Cream), a YA mystery novel he submitted for the Kadokawa School Novel Prize competition, earned an honorable mention. Sayonara yosei (Farewell, Sprite), a critically acclaimed story of the relationship between Japanese high-school boys and a girl from war-torn Yugoslavia, helped cement his reputation when it was published in 2004. Since then he has been a regular presence on lists of the year's best mysteries. Oreta ryukotsu (Broken Keel) won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Novels in 2011. Though known especially for his distinctive and fresh blending of the tale of youth with the whodunit, Yonezawa has also made forays into science fiction, as with 2006’s Botorunekku (Bottleneck) and 2007’s Inshitemiru (Try Indulging), a sinister "murder game" story. In 2013 he published the novel Rikashiburu (Recursible). He is a leading figure among Japan's younger generation of mystery writers.

source：http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/...

Reviews

[Mitha Septiandari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike the third book which made it difficult for me to finish, this fourth book made me excited, especially from the climax to the conclusion. As I always thought, Kobatou will be more lively when he is with Osanai, and vice versa. And I feel like they're starting to realize that, yeay! I hope that from now on this young couple who is determined to become petit bourgeoisie will no longer hide their true identity from each other and focus on enjoying their "limited" time together to fulfill their curiosity (and to eat more sweets).

P.S. I don't want to be mean but I also agree with Osanai about her opinion of Urino-kun.

[CJ Tillman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yonezawa has again taken this series to places I never expected it to go. Here he takes a HUGE risk by making a brand new character the main narrator and has the rest of the main cast work more in the background and he absolutely sticks the landing. The new character is a really hard character to like, making this an even trickier balancing act, and indeed in the first half I did find myself wondering why the author picked a character with far less interesting inner dialogue than Kobato. But everything comes together so perfectly in the end. The main mystery completely blew me away and the little mysteries mixed in did a really good job to highlight the gap in the way Kobato perceives himself (or wants to) and his actual personality. Yonezawa really drills into Kobato’s personality in this one by having new characters react to him, and it ends up giving new and interesting perspectives into his less flattering attributes.

[Mylove4book · Rating 4 out of 5]

整本看完只想吃栗子= = (估狗了下栗金飩的圖片, 看起來好難吃XDD)
欸老實說這本跟其他兩本比較, 劇情算有趣但推理的部分偏差一點...
不過看著小鳩和小佐內各自的(現充100%)玫瑰色生活蠻活潑的啦. 跟隔壁古籍研究社比起來, 簡直是粉紅泡泡滿天飛舞背景還有天使在唱歌的等級. 奉太郎你太遜了太遜了!

[veri · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s been a while since I’ve finished a book, and in that time I was thinking about what it means to participate in a youthful setting. Similarly, this series by Honobu Yonezawa excels in exploring two high school characters that I’d summarize as “wise in a hypocritical and isolating fashion”. This volume is a huge payoff from the last one, with a subversive and well-focused method of solving the mystery and wittily leading to an appreciated semi-conclusion for the characters. I also want to make sure to mention how well personalities and developing perspectives are imbued or accounted for in the writing.

[Hsien Tsui · Rating 4 out of 5]

好我懂了，男主角就像是還在鑽牛角尖時期的福部里志吧，而且還是把自己的黑暗面全部顯露出來的福部。女主角就...雖然這本已經是第四本了，我好像還是跟她不太熟。

[ツバキ · Rating 3 out of 5]

滿喜歡下集的。
雖然中途就覺得某些線索是為了誤導，但還真的就是這樣。其實我滿早就直覺猜到兇手是誰了。
個人喜歡女朋友的台詞，跟最後根本跟告白差不多的那個場景。
因為某個原因而想復仇的小佐內意外地滿少女的。

[上杉夏香 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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