穷追不舍

by Hideo Yokoyama, 横山秀夫, 赵建勋 (Translator)

装在信封里的呼机就在秋叶的口袋里。秋叶本打算把呼机还给明子家里的人，但转念一想，就这样还给他们合适吗？刚才看到的明子身体很好，根本看不出接受不了丈夫突然辞世这个现实的样子。这就奇怪了，明子为什么要在举行吊唁活动这天傍晚给已经死去的丈夫发短信呢？

要不就是思慕丈夫的念头驱使她那样做的？通过给丈夫发短信，告诉他今天晚上吃什么，以此安慰自己：丈夫并没有死。如果明子是这样一种心理状态的话，现在就把呼机还给她不是太残酷了吗？正因为不知道那个呼机到哪里去了，明子才确信自己的短信可以被丈夫收到。

325 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Hideo Yokoyama (横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize; the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. He repeated his Konomys No. 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), centering on the crash of JAL Flight 123 that he covered as a reporter in 1985; the World War II novel Deguchi no nai umi (Seas with No Exit, 2004); the police novel Shindo zero (Seismic Intensity Zero, 2005); and the story collection Rinjo (Initial Investigation, 2004).

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Reviews

[宅女阿reen · Rating 3 out of 5]

这本书里的短篇小说，有的较为普通，有几篇则保持了“一笔入魂”的水准。最后一篇“他人之事”可说是压轴之作，由一个简单的案件，引出了家庭和社会的矛盾与悲哀。横山秀夫不但善于描写社会现象，也善于捕捉人性本善的一面。无论是怎样的故事，在他笔下的结局总有悄悄的一线曙光，让人瞥见了美好。