高熱隧道

by Akira Yoshimura

黒部第三発電所――昭和11年8月着工、昭和15年11月完工。人間の侵入を拒み続けた嶮岨な峡谷の、岩盤最高温度165度という高熱地帯に、隧道（トンネル）を掘鑿する難工事であった。犠牲者は300余名を数えた。トンネル貫通への情熱にとり憑かれた男たちの執念と、予測もつかぬ大自然の猛威とが対決する異様な時空を、綿密な取材と調査で再現して、極限状況における人間の姿を描破した記録文学。

272 pages, 文庫

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄,engl. prison break) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.