Gifted
About This Novel
The street where I live is noisy at night, but during the day I can barely hear anyone's voice. This is the entertainment street, this is the world of night. In the entertainment district, many people do not have what they should have - teeth, sleep or dreams. In the entertainment district, there are countless women carrying envelopes with two million yen in them, which is roughly the same as the number of women who say they want to die. I left home at the age of seventeen and worked in a bar as a virgin. From then on, drinking became my job. I spent half of every day in vague memories, and the other half in almost disappeared memories. Over the years, I've always had friends who wanted to prove that they weren't on the same page as everyone else. As for who they want to prove to, it's a mystery, maybe they want to prove it to themselves. However, unfortunately we are all on the same page, not a millimeter apart. There are people in the world who have high values, and there are people who have low values, and those of us gathered here are exactly the same, perhaps lower than the rest of the world. I lost two friends this summer. One of them had gotten married and had a child five years ago, but she ran away with a man and lost contact. She was my classmate in middle school, and she persisted in keeping in touch with me when I was only interested in hanging out with people on the entertainment street. We were in contact intermittently. However, when one day she stopped replying to messages, and after a while I couldn't even send her messages, I received a call from her husband, and then I learned that she, who often came home late for no reason, finally didn't come home one day. He asked me where she went, but I didn't know either. Another man jumped from his rental apartment in Osaka and left this world. I identified her body at the funeral, so at least I know where she went. Perhaps because I had lost so much during the summer, I readily accepted the request of my mother, whom I had not contacted for many years, to move into my house before late autumn. The lesions in the mother's stomach finally reached the point where it was difficult to sustain life, and she seemed to be looking for a place to die. At this moment, as I waited for death with my mother, I, who had always been silent, suddenly wanted to ask her: "Why do I have no father?" "Why don't you get angry no matter if I smoke or drink?" "Do you know what I do for a living on this street?" "Do you know the lies I told?" "Why did you burn my skin when you didn't beat me or abandon me?" And "Are you lucky to have given birth to me?"
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Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
He talked about the relationship between mother and daughter and some of his life history. This book uses a large space to describe the past events between mother and daughter, and the emotions are very delicate. After reading this book, people will unconsciously be moved by the characters in the book!
Come here because of its reputation
I have read many teachers, but I seem to want to get salvation or something else from this book. Nanami Yokomiya committed suicide at the age of 21 last year. I liked her films before, but there were no distributors to release new films or even new films two months later. Let's not talk about the industry at this moment, let me take a good look at this book.
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Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
He talked about the relationship between mother and daughter and some of his life history. This book uses a large space to describe the past events between mother and daughter, and the emotions are very delicate. After reading this book, people will unconsciously be moved by the characters in the book!
Come here because of its reputation
I have read many teachers, but I seem to want to get salvation or something else from this book. Nanami Yokomiya committed suicide at the age of 21 last year. I liked her films before, but there were no distributors to release new films or even new films two months later. Let's not talk about the industry at this moment, let me take a good look at this book.
