快挙（新潮文庫）

by Kazufumi Shiraishi, 白石 一文

写真家を目指す俊彦は、小料理屋を営む二歳上のみすみと結婚する。やがて小説に転向した夫を、気丈な妻は支え続けた。しかし平穏な関係はいつしか変質し、小さなひびが広がり始める……。それでもふたりは共に生きる人生を選ぶのか？　結婚に愛は存在するのか？　そして人生における快挙とは何か？　一組の男女が織りなす十数年間の日々を描き、静かな余韻を残す夫婦小説の傑作。

175 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2013

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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