私は女になりたい

by Misumi Kubo, 窪 美澄

これは私の最後の恋、なのだろうか。
妻でもなく、母でもなく、娘でもなく、ひとりの女になりたい。
恋愛小説の名手があなたを揺さぶる。

赤澤奈美は47歳、美容皮膚科医。カメラマンだった夫とは別れ、シングルマザーとしてひとり息子を育て、老いた母の面倒を見ながら仕事一筋に生きてきた。ふとしたことから、元患者で14歳年下の業平公平と、事故に逢うように恋に落ちてしまう。心を閉ざすように生きてきた奈美の、モノクロームだった世界が、色と音を持ち始めた。

もう一度、軽やかな私へ

美しい人生賛歌小説

274 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2020

About the author

Misumi Kubo is a Japanese writer. She has won the R-18 Literary Award, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Yamada Fūtarō Prize, and she has twice been nominated for the Naoki Prize. Her work was adapted into the 2012 film The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky.

Reviews

[aku · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a theme that I've read a lot in Japanese literature that I don't enjoy a lot, which is characters getting blamed and ostracized for things they do not control but they never explain anything and just take the blame and the shame, suffering in silence.
I don't enjoy that and I get it's clearly a social issue but I don't like novels like this.