決壊（上）

by Keiichirō Hirano

2002年10月、全国で次々と犯行声明付きのバラバラ遺体が発見された。被害者は平凡な家庭を営む会社員沢野良介。事件当夜、良介はエリート公務員である兄・崇と大阪で会っていたはずだったが―。絶望的な事件を描いて読む者に“幸福”と“哀しみ”の意味を問う衝撃作。

382 pages, 単行本

First published June 26, 2008

About the author

Keiichirō Hirano (平野 啓一郎 Hirano Keiichirō, born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese novelist.

Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, 日蝕) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever (at 23 years of age). He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.