のっけから失礼します

by Shion Miura, 三浦しをん

雑誌「BAILA」での連載に、紀州パンダ紀行など、とっておきの書き下ろし5本を加えた「構想5年!」(著者談)の超大作(?)エッセイ集。
タクシーで運転手さんと繰り広げられる面白トーク、漫画や三代目J Soul Brothers への熱き想い、家族との心温まるエピソード……。
ありふれた日常がこんなにも笑い(ときどきほろっと)に包まれているなんて!
当代きっての人気作家、三浦しをんワールドが炸裂する、抱腹絶倒の1冊。

304 pages, Hardcover

Published August 5, 2019

About the author

Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not yet reached her 30th birthday—an unusually young age for this prize; in fact it was her second nomination. Her novels since then include the 2006 Kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru (The Wind Blows Hard), about the annual Ekiden long-distance relay race in which universities compete, and the 2010 Kogure-so monogatari (The Kogure Apartments), depicting the lives of people dwelling in an old rundown wooden-frame apartment house. In 2012 she received the Booksellers Award for the novel Fune o amu (The Great Passage), a tale about compiling a dictionary. A manga aficionado, Miura has declared herself a particular fan of the "boys' love" subgenre about young homosexual encounters.

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

Reviews

[Angel 一匹狼 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of little 'essays' written by the great Miura for the magazine BAILA, this is more of the same if you have ever read some of her non-fiction work for magazines: super easy to read stories that run for 5/6 pages, with some silly humor and with appearances by her family, some random restaurant, the J-pop group EXILE, that comprises of all men over 18 years old in Japan (ok, it is just 84 members, tells me google), her body problems, visits to a museum... There is nothing new, but she is as engaging as ever. But, again, as there is little new, there is also a sense of repetition. If you like her style, you will probably like this, but she has better books out there.

Alternatives: fiction, "神去なあなあ日常", "月魚" or "墨のゆらめき", non-fiction "お友だちからお願いします" or "好きになってしまいました。"

6.5/10

(Japanese; original)

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of short stories. Miura’s writing style is pretty flowery with complicated expressions, so it was a good challenge while studying N1. That said, I definitely felt some of the stories were a bit repetitive with a lot of rambling, making it hard to keep my motivation to keep reading large amounts each time.

[JapaneseBookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

すっごくすっっごく面白かった！気づいたら何度も声を出して笑っていて、夫に怪しまれたこと多々。三浦しをんさん素敵だなー。彼女のご家族も素敵だなー。ご近所さんになりたいなぁー。

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