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Oda Sakunosuke is good at describing the life of ordinary people in Osaka in simple dialects. This book collects six of his works, including the novels "Advertising Balloon", "Seamless", "Horse Racing" and "Hair", as well as the essays "Rising Osaka: Aftermath of the War" and "The Possibility of Osaka". These works are full of the customs and people of Osaka half a century ago: Shinsaibashi, Dotonbori, and Shinsekai are vividly displayed on the page; the aroma of rock rice, Uiro mochi, Imagawa yaki, and grilled glutinous rice balls fills the pages. The protagonists of the work were mostly "marginal people" in the society at that time: a wandering paper puppet actor who was once used as a dung-carrying gift, a bad guy who loved raising money for others and even pawned his own clothes for it, a man who forgot his jealousy and hatred because of horse racing and hugged his wife's affair partner tightly. , A 33-year-old man who insists on growing his hair long but still chooses to go bald in line with the current situation... The work exudes a strong sense of world-weariness. On the one hand, it has the intention of resisting authority and secularity; on the other hand, Oda Sananosuke also reflects the daily laughter and tears of ordinary people through self-deprecating and humorous sentences.
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