誰かが足りない

by Natsu Miyashita

一生一定要品嘗一次的夢幻料理！今晚，請一起來預約幸福的滋味！失去一個人、想念一個人、等待一個人，即使心底缺了一角，卻仍能感到幸福。我相信，終有一天我們能夠再次相遇……「HARAI」，這間小餐館提供各式美味料理，酸甜苦辣任君選擇，然而每一道食物背後，全是對愛情、親情與友情的種種人生詮釋。當流淌在舌尖上的滋味轉化為心靈上的饜足，它也成為絕望中的人們繼續追求幸福的動力。當他們不約而同在10月31日這一天來到「HARAI」，六段奇妙的際遇，也交織出你我都一定曾經歷過的人生風景。作者宮下奈都以溫暖而輕柔的筆調，藉由懷念的料理，細膩刻畫出我們的煩惱與失落，卻又恰到好處地賦予希望與勇氣，在在展現出生命中最微妙卻又不可或缺的奇蹟！

Tankobon Hardcover

First published October 19, 2011

About the author

宮下奈都 Natsu Miyashita was born in Fukui Prefecture on Honshu island, Japan, in 1967. She has had a lifelong passion for reading and writing and has played the piano since she was very young. The Forest Of Wool And Steel won the influential Japan Booksellers’ Award, in which booksellers vote for the title they most enjoy to hand-sell. It has also been turned into a popular Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Perhaps it's a bit harsh to rate this book 1.5 stars, although the first handful of short stories are quite decent, but the rest of the stories are simply boring and nothing special, to a point that I had to skip just to make it through the whole book.

I understand the author wants to go for 'slices of life' writing, plus the book is supposed to be about the daily life and different emotions of ordinary Japanese people and it isn't supposed to be a book which is filled with melodramas nor actions; but for most of the time the characters and their feeling falls flat to me and I bet I would be unable to recall any of the detail within the book three days after finished reading it.