お別れの音

by Nanae Aoyama, 青山七恵

すぐ隣で、ずっと遠くで、耳をすませばきっと聞こえる。芥川賞作家にして史上最年少の川端賞作家がすくいあげる6つの小さな奇跡。

234 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

青山 七恵

Reviews

[Anna Yamauchi]

Aoyama has a remarkable ability to find melancholy in ordinary life. The book understands that endings rarely arrive with a clear conclusion. More often, they emerge gradually through routine. Someone moves away. A conversation becomes less frequent. A familiar presence slowly turns into a memory. The sadness comes not from a single event but from realizing that something has already ended before you've fully noticed it. The prose is beautiful in an understated way. It never strains for lyricism, yet certain passages linger because of their precision. Aoyama trusts small details to carry emotional weight, and more often than not, they do. If I have one criticism, it's that the novel can feel almost too quiet at times. But by the end, that restraint felt completely appropriate. A delicate, deeply human book about absence, memory, and the faint echoes people leave behind after they've gone.

[Milkymono · Rating 3 out of 5]

都是一些淡淡的情愫

[流川楓 · Rating 4 out of 5]

温柔细腻的文字大概也只有女性作家能写出来吧

[Lula · Rating 3 out of 5]

不知道为什么不怎么喜欢这种风格

[Yue · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Sound of Separation"