決壊（上）

by Keiichirō Hirano, 平野 啓一郎

地方都市で妻子と平凡な暮らしを送るサラリーマン沢野良介は、東京に住むエリート公務員の兄・崇と、自分の人生への違和感をネットの匿名日記に残していた。一方、いじめに苦しむ中学生・北崎友哉は、殺人の夢想を孤独に膨らませていた。ある日、良介は忽然と姿を消した。無関係だった二つの人生に、何かが起こっている。許されぬ罪を巡り息づまる物語が幕を開く。衝撃の長編小説。

444 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2008

About the author

Keiichirō Hirano (平野 啓一郎 Hirano Keiichirō, born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese novelist.

Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, 日蝕) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever (at 23 years of age). He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.