신들의 봉우리

神々の山嶺

by Baku Yumemakura, 유메마쿠라 바쿠

世界初のエヴェレスト登頂目前で姿を消した登山家・ジョージ・マロリー。謎の鍵を握る古いカメラを手に入れた深町誠は、孤高の登山家・羽生丈二に出会う。山に賭ける男を描いた山岳小説の金字塔が、合本版で登場。

※本書は一九九七年八月、集英社から刊行されたのち、二〇〇〇年八月に集英社文庫として刊行されました。その後、二〇一四年六月に角川文庫として刊行された上下巻を合わせて合本版としました。

824 pages, Unknown Binding

Published March 17, 2020

About the author

Baku Yumemakura was born January 1st 1951 in Kanagawa, Japan. He graduated from Tokai University with a degree in Japanese literature. He debuted as an author in 1977, subsequently publishing a number of successful series including Psyche Diver, Chimera, and Hunting Master in addition many others. In 1989 he won Japan’s Science Fiction award for his novel, The Lion that Ate the Moon, and in 1998 won the 11th Shibata Renzaburo Award for God’s of the Mountain. His work, “Oyedo Chokakuden”, was awarded the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature in 2011 and in 2012 received the Yoshikawa Eiji award. In 2001, the manga adaptation of his seminal work, “Onmyoji”, won the 5th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, while the adaptation of his work “Gods of the Mountain” won the award of excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival. A number of his works have been adapted to film, including the Toho produced “Onmyoji” and “Onmyoji 2”.

See also 夢枕 獏.

Baku Yumemakura Wiki.

Reviews

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Paperback, 1,076pages

[Yuko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome. It almost takes you there, to the icey walls of Mt Everest, and the busy streets of Katmandu. Makes you want to start climbing big mountains.