最後に手にしたいもの

by Shūichi Yoshida

巨万の富や名誉を手に入れたあと、次に人が欲しくなるのは、この夕焼け空なのかもしれない。(本文より)『悪人』『横道世之介』『さよなら渓谷』『怒り』などのベストセラーで知られる芥川賞作家・吉田修一が、 日々を懸命に生きている大人たちに贈る、 どこまでも前向きで心に沁みる50篇のエッセイです。大人たちを縛る「記憶」との上手な付き合い方がしみじみ伝わってくる 『泣きたくなるような青空』の25篇、 自分自身がいかに唯一無二でユニークなのかをあらためて自覚できる『最後に手にしたいもの』の25篇の、2冊同時発売。

Paperback Bunko

First published October 1, 2017

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.