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正版授权 卖家 : Boolee加微信[soweinc]每天分享好书,邀你加入国际微信群学习交流.微信好友低至5优惠 .书名:城市之光简介:作者:(日)北村薰 著,吴冬青 译出版社:人民文学出版社出版时间:2012年07月装订方式:平装

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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277 reviews7 followers
December 1, 2020
節奏感比較慢,比較日常推理小說。第一次接觸這位作者,書本也是蠻久之前買了還沒看的。感覺是撿到寶了。

貧乏的想像力無法完整地把舊時代的日本很好地投影出來,但氛圍很好,有種悠然的感覺。大概是因為故事環繞著富商千金,在貧窮髒亂觸碰不到的地方,所以故事才透著那種盛世太平的幻像。

女主英子小姐的腦袋非常不錯,是這個故事裡面負責推理的人。但字裏行間無處不在暗示著無辜提出疑問的貝琪小姐(司機別宮)才是真正的無所不知。貝琪這個角色非常有趣,她的身世感覺像是故事其中一個最大的謎。能駕駛汽車、耍刀弄槍、剪短髮、外型中性靚麗的女生在那個時代想必是非常少見的。而且感覺大哥雅吉是知道些什麼的。

還好,當時不知道是誤打誤撞地,還是有先見之明地,把系列的三本都買齊了。
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585 reviews65 followers
May 31, 2015
super fun! less a "mystery" book than a series of loosely organized vignettes with small but bizarre (/ridiculous) puzzles at their core, solved by a rich, young お嬢さん and her enigmatic chauffeur ベッキーさん. the protagonist is someone i thought i'd dislike on paper (...no pun intended) but quite liked in the end - there's something almost touching about the precocity of her observations, which are tempered by self-awareness and compassion.

the fun of the book is mostly due to the setting (early showa) - the protagonist reads ranpo and tanizaki, does ginbura, hangs out with the aristocracy, watches charlie chaplin films (there's mention of his visit to japan, too, though puzzlingly no mention of the 5/15 jiken), etc. the references are perhaps rather artificial/shoehorned in but i admit i still enjoyed it all.
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February 18, 2011
北村薫さんは大好きな作家さんですが、最近読んでなくて、この評判がものすごく高い本もようやくこの間読みました。う~~んいい!独特の雰囲気、純粋なミステリーではない、円紫シリーズを彷彿させる若い女性の主人公の視線を通した世界観好きです。ベッキーさんがとてもカッコいいです。この昭和初期という設定が、生かされていてかなり気に入りました。文庫化されているものは一気読みしたいシリーズです。円紫シリーズが好きだった人は必読。これから、このお嬢様がベッキーさんを通じて、または自分で出会う出来事で、どう成長するのか楽しみです。
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