Лучшие книги Сюити Ёсида

Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can't have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He's eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type. In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.

A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass—which tunnels through a mountainous region of southern Japan—has an eerie history: a hideout for robbers, murderers, and ghostly creatures lurking at night.

Soon afterward, a young construction worker becomes the primary suspect. As the investigation unfolds, the events leading up to the murder come darkly into focus, revealing a troubled cast of characters: the victim, Yoshino, a woman much too eager for acceptance; the suspect, Yuichi, a car enthusiast misunderstood by everyone around him; the victim’s middle-aged father, a barber disappointed with his life; and the suspect’s aging grandmother, who survived the starvation of postwar Japan only to be tormented by local gangsters. And, finally, there is desperate Mitsuyo, the lonely woman who finds Yuichi online and makes the big mistake of falling for him.

A stunningly dark thriller and a tapestry of noir, Villain is the English-language debut for Shuichi Yoshida, one of Japan’s most acclaimed and accomplished writers. From desolate seaside towns and lighthouses to love hotels and online chat rooms, Villain reveals the inner lives of men and women who all have something to hide. Part police procedural, part gritty realism, Villain is a coolly seductive story of loneliness and alienation in the southernmost reaches of Japan.

実力派が描く女の生態

何もしない女、だらしない女、気前のいい女、よく泣く女……人生の中で繰り返す、出会いと別れ。ときに苦く、哀しい現代の男女を実力派の著者がリアルに描く短編集。

公園にひとりで座っていると、あなたには何が見えますか?
スターバックスのコーヒーを片手に、春風に乱れる髪を押さえていたのは、地下鉄でぼくが話しかけてしまった美女だった。噴水広場でカラフルな弁当を広げるOL、片足立ちの体操をする男、小さな気球を上げる老人・・・。ベンチの隣に座って彼女と言葉を交わし合ううち、それまでなんとなく見えていた景色が、にわかに切ないほどリアルに動きはじめる。
日比谷公園を舞台に、男と女の微妙な距離感を描いて、芥川賞を受賞した傑作小説。
ほかに東京で新生活をはじめた夫婦が、職場の先輩に振り回されてしまう「flowers」を収録。

A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty?
This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation.
As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be...