Tsujimura is an award-winning novelist, she is best known for her mystery and children novels. She studied at Chiba University and won the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key), and in 2018 she won the Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Kagami no Kojo (Lonely Castle in the Mirror).
Gồm có năm truyện ngắn. Mình nhận thấy được mỗi truyện đều nói đến những mối quan hệ "độc hại" và lạm dụng. Hay mỗi truyện đều có những vấn nạn khác nhau. Nhưng khổ nổi là mình chẳng thích bất kì truyện nào cả. Mình cảm thấy phần kết khác xa với phần đầu.
Mình rất thắc mắc ở Truyện đầu tiên, tại sao một tên trộm khi bị phát hiện thì lại được cho thêm tiền? Tại sao nhân vật lại tự khóc và nói xin lỗi?
A 2.5 stars read. The writing is decent and the author has good observation, there are two outstanding stories but the other stories are quite dim.
The author brings nothing new to the table whenever she wants to make comment on human nature and the daily lives of Japanese middle class/lower middle class' citizens.
*yawns* Mind to tell me something I haven't already heard before, Ms. Tsujimura?
Trust me, I want to like this short stories collection and I want to be impressed by Ms. Tsujimura's writing, but in the end I'm disappointed.
Each story is about a female character dealing with some part of life: an abusive boyfriend, postpartum depression, learning about poverty for the first time, etc. Their ages range from children to young adult. The stories themselves are quite short though they range from 5 to 10ish chapters.
I liked the first and last stories out of the 5 there were. The others would okay but they weren't as visceral and couldn't hold my attention as well as the 1st and 5th.
A collection of 5 short stories. The author captures the dilemma so well that the readers can be easily drawn to the stories and identify with the characters.