この胸に深々と突き刺さる矢を抜け 下

by Kazufumi Shiraishi

カワバタは胃ガンであった。手術の直後から、数年前に死んだ息子が自分をどこかに導こうとする囁きが聞こえ出す。格差社会、DV、売春――思索はどこまでも広がり、深まり、それが死の準備などではなく、新たな生の発見へとつながってゆく。発表されるや各メディアから嵐のような絶賛を浴びた、衝撃の書。（講談社文庫）

287 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2011

About the author

Kazufumi SHIRAISHI (白石 一文) is a Japanese writer. He is the son of novelist Ichiro Shiraishi. The two are the only father-son pair to have both received the Naoki Prize, the father on his eighth try after numerous disappointments and the son on his second, for the 2009 Hokanaranu hito e (To an Incomparable Other); at his prize press conference the son got a laugh by joking that he had always "hated" the Naoki because of the grief it had put his father through. The younger Shiraishi's first job out of college was as an editor and magazine reporter at Bungeishunju. He published his first work, Isshun no hikari (A Ray of Light), in 2000, and three years later quit his company to become a full-time writer. In 2009 he received the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for Kono mune ni fukabuka to tsukisasaru ya o nuke (Remove That Arrow from Deep in My Heart); other novels include Suna no ue no anata (You upon the Sands; 2010). Shiraishi's stance toward love and life powerfully informs many of his works, lending them a philosophical ring.

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