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第1回『このミス』大賞受賞作家が描くガールズ・ラブ。著者特有の繊細な描写で、9歳から24歳までの、ふたりの女性15年間の交流を鮮やかに描き出します。彼女たちの生き方は不器用かもしれませんが、思い通りにはいかない人生を前向きに生きようとするふたりの姿に、読者は必ずどこかで共感するはず。女性同士の恋や、実母による養育ネグレクト、義父からの性的虐待がなどが描かれていきますが、性について、生きることについてを考えさせられ、読み終わったあとには、自分の大切な人に会いたくなる作品です。

295 pages, Tankobon Softcover

First published July 10, 2009

About the author

Takuya Asakura

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Born in Sapporo in 1966, Takuya Asakura graduated from the University of Tokyo. He won the first 'This Mystery is Amazing!' Grand Prize in 2002 for Yokkakan no Kiseki (The Miracle of Four Days), which was subsequently made into a film and sold over 1.3 million copies.
Takuya is also a translator and translated Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library from English into Japanese.

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