皆のあらばしり

by Yusuke Norishiro, 乗代雄介

ぼくと中年男は、謎の本を探し求める。三島賞作家の受賞第一作。

幻の書の新発見か、それとも偽書か――。高校の歴史研究部活動で城址を訪れたぼくは中年男に出会う。人を喰った大阪弁とは裏腹な深い学識で、男は旧家の好事家が蔵書目録に残した「謎の本」の存在を追い始めた。うさん臭さに警戒しつつも、ぼくは男の博識に惹かれていく。ラストの逆転劇が光る、良質のミステリのような注目作。

144 pages, Hardcover

First published December 22, 2021

About the author

Born in 1986 in Hokkaido, Japan, Yusuke Norishiro (Japanese name: 乗代雄介) graduated from Hosei University and taught at a cram school for ten years. He made his debut with the coming-of-age novel From Seventeen to Eighteen after it won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2015. He has been shortlisted for the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s highest literary honor, four times for Traveling Practice, The Ultimate Mission, Mina no arabashiri, and The Truth of It. Traveling Practice went on to win the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2020 and the Tsubota Joji Literature Prize in 2021.