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Solomon's Perjury #1 part1

ソロモンの偽証: 第I部 事件 上巻

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クリスマス未明、一人の中学生が転落死した。柏木卓也、14歳。彼はなぜ死んだのか。殺人か。自殺か。謎の死への疑念が広がる中、“同級生の犯行”を告発する手紙が関係者に届く。さらに、過剰報道によって学校、保護者の混乱は極まり、犯人捜しが公然と始まった―。一つの死をきっかけに膨れ上がる人々の悪意。それに抗し、死の真相を求める生徒達を描く、現代ミステリーの最高峰。

515 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2012

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Miyuki Miyabe

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See also 宮部 みゆき (Japanese language profile) and 宮部美幸 (Chinese language profile).

Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき Miyabe Miyuki) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres including science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction.
Miyabe started writing novels at the age of 23. She has been a prolific writer, publishing dozens of novels and winning many major literary prizes, including the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize in 1993 for Kasha and the Naoki Prize in 1998 for Riyū [The Reason] (理由). A Japanese film adaptation of Riyû, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, was released in 2004.

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Profile Image for Angel 一匹狼.
1,008 reviews63 followers
November 9, 2019
The first book of a six-long series, "ソロモンの偽証: 第I部 事件 上巻" introduces the readers to the mystery: did the student really kill himself?, what about the bully?, and that shady student that tries to twist reality to fill her own purposes? The array of characters that Miyuki Miyabe has created is fascinating, and all seem to have nasty secrets in their closet, making the more than 500-pages-long book actually quite easy to read. However, it is also a little bit head-scratching that, after those more than 500 pages, little has been made clear, and that five more books are coming in the series. Let's see how things develop.

The best: the mystery is compelling

The worst: it suffers from uneven pacing; too many characters mean that things can be a little bit difficult to follow sometimes

Alternatives: Miyabe's own "Brave Story" even if very different, is quite similar in its depiction of the youth.

7/10

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1,010 reviews
July 25, 2024
在到期日又不能續借的前提下,四天看完共700多頁的兩本書。I am proud of myself… A‧G‧A‧I‧N。

故事的場景在東京一所中學,聖誕夜隔日的學期最後一天,在鋪滿白雪的建築物草地上,發現一具屍體。死者是已經拒學有段時日的國二學生,柏木卓也。接著引爆了一連串的事件,牽引到的範疇更是又深又廣,像:校園霸凌,匿名信,自殺/謀殺的流言,學校當局的應變,新聞節目記者噬血的本事,怪獸家長,師生相處,親子關係……。接著又死了一個女學生,一個男學生重傷。

霸凌者到底是不是就是謀殺者?看完了700多頁,只提出一大堆的疑點,真相還在很遙遠的某處。

故事中塑造了好幾為個性鮮明的14歲青少年、少女,其中的中心人物就是父親是警視廳警官的藤野涼子,她不但長相佳,功課好,又是劍道社團的成員,班長,更重要的是個性一點也不驕縱,每每在和大人的對話中,都只看到成穩的一面。但是總覺得這樣的特性在14歲孩子身上就這麼齊全,並不是那麼有說服力。這是萬中選一的人物,還是作者設定的角色年齡過小了些的缺失?這樣的疑慮在看其他學生角色時,也時時出現。

故事中另一個重點是孩子和父母之間的相處,在描述孩子渴望的家庭溫暖卻落空時,清楚看出來作者要身為父母得負起責任─天下有許多不是的父母啊!

另外因為多年身處教育環境之中,對怪獸家長的感受可真覺得原來「中外皆然」。當越來越多的老師沒反省自己處理學生問題的能力;當家長把學校老師當成聘用員工驅使;當社會用高道德標準看待學校裡的成員,卻又不相信教育是專業人士才可以處理的範疇……,混亂的價值觀,就絕對會事永遠根深蒂固的常態了。

校園霸凌是這個故事悲劇的源頭。想起在奈良遇到的那位英文導遊義工媽媽,在導覽完後的閒聊當中,想了解台灣的話題當中,第一個就是問我台灣的學校有沒有校園霸凌事件。後來再多聊了一陣子之後,才知道他的獨生女在中學時就因為霸凌,最後轉學到私立學校就讀。

書看得很快的原因因為屆期的催促,另個原因是……也不是不夠曲折,或者是平板無趣,反正角色的刻劃,就是有那麼點兒難引起心底的共鳴。但這書是三部曲哪!到底人怎麼死的?誰說了謊?還是想把故事看完的。


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October 2, 2022
距離十四歲有點太久遠的現在看,不禁覺得故事裡面的小鬼頭都好成熟。
但說不定我當時也這樣呢。
畢竟是才要意識到世界殘酷的年紀。

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