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虚夢
江戶川亂步獎得主 藥丸 岳
深入探討人心的脆弱與堅強，牽動情感的長篇力作
公園隨機殺人事件奪走了女兒留美的性命。然而，兇手藤崎被認定行為時處於「心神喪失」狀態，依法獲判無罪。三上的心靈受到重創，甚至跟妻子佐和子離婚。事隔四年，佐和子突然來電告知在路上看見藤崎。三上打算接觸殺害女兒的藤崎，但是……三上真的想要找到「那個男人」嗎？
錯的是犯下凶殺案的藤崎嗎？
還是明明藤崎的病還沒好，就讓他一個人到札幌生活的父母？
或者，讓藤崎出院的精神科醫生？
還是說，那天湊巧到公園活動的人們運氣太差呢？
他該恨誰才對呢？
深入探討人心的脆弱與堅強，牽動情感的長篇力作
公園隨機殺人事件奪走了女兒留美的性命。然而，兇手藤崎被認定行為時處於「心神喪失」狀態，依法獲判無罪。三上的心靈受到重創，甚至跟妻子佐和子離婚。事隔四年，佐和子突然來電告知在路上看見藤崎。三上打算接觸殺害女兒的藤崎，但是……三上真的想要找到「那個男人」嗎？
錯的是犯下凶殺案的藤崎嗎？
還是明明藤崎的病還沒好，就讓他一個人到札幌生活的父母？
或者，讓藤崎出院的精神科醫生？
還是說，那天湊巧到公園活動的人們運氣太差呢？
他該恨誰才對呢？
288 pages, Paperback
First published May 13, 2011
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November 5, 2017
Review for Angel's Blade, by the same author: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Vague Dreams is an effectively written crime thriller written by Gaku Yakumaru.
In this story, the narrator is a small time novelist who had suffered a great tragedy: alongside many other innocent bystanders, his wife and daughter were attacked by a young man in a park, the novelist's daughter was stabbed to death and his wife badly injured. The attacker was arrested instantly but he later pleaded insanity, resulting in him merely being sent to a hospital instead of prison.
After suffering such trauma, the novelist and his wife got a divorce and now years later, while the novelist is busy getting drunken and taking odd jobs for a living, his estranged ex wife suddenly phones him and insists the murderer had been released, but she had also passed him by on the street?
Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman named Yuki, who has been running away from traumas of her own for years, now works for a host club and milks money out of horny men for a living. Then she meets this gentle young man whom she wants to spend time with, but the problem is, is this young man as gentle as he appears to be?
You think it's a story about the victimized couple (parents of a murdered girl) fighting against an evil murderer? Well, you will be disappointed. Mr. Yakumaru never offers us 'Good v.s Evil' melodrama in his novels. Instead he discussed things from both sides and show us the different reasoning and suffering of both victims and criminals being trapped in nonstop nightmares.
And the final plot twists in the end....damn, I'd never seen them coming!
Vague Dreams is an effectively written crime thriller written by Gaku Yakumaru.
In this story, the narrator is a small time novelist who had suffered a great tragedy: alongside many other innocent bystanders, his wife and daughter were attacked by a young man in a park, the novelist's daughter was stabbed to death and his wife badly injured. The attacker was arrested instantly but he later pleaded insanity, resulting in him merely being sent to a hospital instead of prison.
After suffering such trauma, the novelist and his wife got a divorce and now years later, while the novelist is busy getting drunken and taking odd jobs for a living, his estranged ex wife suddenly phones him and insists the murderer had been released, but she had also passed him by on the street?
Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman named Yuki, who has been running away from traumas of her own for years, now works for a host club and milks money out of horny men for a living. Then she meets this gentle young man whom she wants to spend time with, but the problem is, is this young man as gentle as he appears to be?
You think it's a story about the victimized couple (parents of a murdered girl) fighting against an evil murderer? Well, you will be disappointed. Mr. Yakumaru never offers us 'Good v.s Evil' melodrama in his novels. Instead he discussed things from both sides and show us the different reasoning and suffering of both victims and criminals being trapped in nonstop nightmares.
And the final plot twists in the end....damn, I'd never seen them coming!
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