This mystery novel is amazing! Shoji Shimada highly recommends Utano Akiko's masterpiece, winning all major mystery awards! The golden age of man is always hidden in the future.
Naruse, who works in a detective agency, is commissioned to investigate the truth of a car accident, but is involved in an insurance murder case. During this period, Naruse met Sakura who attempted suicide, and the two began a wonderful love affair. As the investigation deepens, the truth gradually emerges...
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I just found the book on the bookstore and it was a pleasure to read it!
At first, I thought it was a cold-hearted young detective mystery novel that exposed the darkness of society. Later, I turned around and discovered that it was a familiar narrative trick. However, I was indeed deceived, and I reconfirmed that I was not wrong. I read other book reviews online and found that although there are some logical loopholes, it's not a bad idea to call it a masterpiece.
Secondly, I really like the discussion about what you can do after you get old. As the hero said:
"Your negative thinking is very problematic. Why can't I be an exception? Who made the rules? If I am an exception, how will you know if you don't live and try? When you compare yourself with outstanding people, you immediately think that you are incomparable, which is equivalent to admitting defeat before even entering the battle. Only those who believe in their own possibility have the qualifications to realize this possibility. As long as I live for one day, I have to do everything. Even if I know that I will die tomorrow, I will do what I need to do today meticulously. As for you, don't give up on life casually. If you really want to give up, it's not too late to give up after I die, right? Before I die, spend the rest of your life happily with me!"
I hope I can face life as positively as he does [Top post][Top post]
I thought it was a story about young people, but in the end I found out it was a story about a group of elderly people...
I thought it was a beautiful encounter for Naruse to save Sakura Ando from committing suicide in the subway station. Unexpectedly, Setsuko Furuya pretended to be Sakura Asamiya, but she fell in love with him and hated him. She wanted to kill him but couldn't bear it because she was a crazy shopper who bought a club and owed a huge sum of money and became an accomplice of the club (killing old people to cheat insurance money).
The death of Sera, My Spy, turned out to be nothing more than a self-acted and self-directed story about stealing fans into the stomach and then committing suicide by rotting in the stomach.
We are all guilty, and my crime is to pretend that Ando, who committed suicide, is still alive, collects a pension for his daughter Chie, a heart-warming story...
Recommended for men, there is detective, first love, underworld, and true love. Although the age is a bit unexpected, and the ending is not what ordinary people can predict, but if you can't stand him, it is a foreshadowing, and you can't say anything.
But I (nande) looked really good.
Cool! It feels like watching a big movie, but the best thing about this book is that it can only be presented in the form of a novel! In the end, there is an unexpected and satisfying feeling. It is indeed a masterpiece of narrative trickery. After reading it, I will recall the writing technique. There are so many wonderful things. It is worth reading!
The beauty of autumn leaves ripples like water, and the heart of a young man is like an eternal lotus. I will only be crazy about you for the rest of my life. Youth never abandons you. It just stops and waits for you. It falls inadvertently and creates ripples...
It's really imaginative, and it subverted my understanding of mystery novels. When the stories were connected in the end, I wanted to cry. The end of the book fills people with hope of living, and the protagonist's experience is also very interesting. It also contains some depictions of human nature. It is a mystery novel well worth reading.
This kind of tough guy style feels good. The protagonist has a strong sense of justice, good conduct, and is kind. He is very different from those tough guy detectives in Europe and America who rely on beating, smashing, robbing, and threatening witnesses to solve cases.
I was a bit surprised after reading it. I didn't expect that the protagonist's identity spans such a long time [laughing and crying][laughing and crying]
The reversal is pretty good, and the intention of cherishing the present and the future is also pretty good.
But the disadvantage is the love between Tora and Setsuko... It feels like the process of Tora falling in love with Setsuko is not very real, more like wanting to save her
Overall it's okay.
It is a late song of twilight love, and also a debtor's tragedy. It has amazing reasoning, unexpected ending, structure of grass and snakes and gray lines, and unique and multiple parallel story advancements, making it difficult to put it down.
The ending is indeed unexpected. There are also many practical issues about population aging throughout the article. Japan is aging many years earlier than China, but China is also about to age. You can look more at the problems that appeared in Japanese society at the beginning. It is possible that we will also face them in the future. We will have more coping capabilities and feel the life thoughts of the elderly.
Regarding the plot of the article, the narrated feeling is logical and unexpected. After reading the ending, I found that many details have been reflected in the previous article. I won't go into spoilers. It is still worth reading.
There are many golden sentences and sentences of life philosophy. I think everyone may have the anxiety and sentimentality from middle age to old age. You can also read this book. Maybe many things that you feel you cannot let go of will gradually loosen. Young people will slow down and older people will stabilize their anxiety.
The best book I've read recently. It's been a long time since I've had a book with a twist that left me speechless.
What I've been looking for is this feeling of mouth and eyes wide open.
This reversal setting can be ranked in the top of Japan's reasoning list. I think it can be compared with the Klein pot.
Japanese literature is still suitable for me. I always feel that I can't read the translations of European and American classics. It's weird. I wonder if the languages of East Asian countries have something in common after translation, such as word order and so on.
The following contains spoilers↓
Both the male and female protagonists are elderly. This is the biggest twist in the book.
It should belong to the social school of reasoning. It focuses on the aging problem in Japan. It is completely China's pioneer service.
The author also keeps urging people to live on, even if they are older, it is never too late to do anything.
Let's put it this way
It's like watching a movie,
The male and female protagonists appear in no particular order.
They always appear in each other's eyes with the youthful beauty they first saw.
This was ignored by me
I guess what this story tells us:
Not a memory from the past
But as a new life in front of me
interpretation
intertwined
Published in 2003, it is a socialist reasoning, involving the issue of population aging, and used narrative techniques. After reading it, I had doubts about the title of the book, so I searched it and found out that cherry trees bloom first and then grow leaves. People who know the common sense of this creature should have already understood it.
At first I thought the protagonists were all young people, but at the end I found out that they were all elderly people in their 70s.
The cover is very beautiful, and so is the title, which fully demonstrates the pure beauty of cherry blossoms.
However, at the end of the story, I don't know if it's something wrong with me or something else. It may be that my feelings are different. I was indeed surprised by the ending, but it was not as shocking as other books of a similar type that I have seen.
This book is indeed good in my opinion, but it didn't shock me too much, but not much, even if it was indeed some wonderful things.
Short stories that focus on restoration and secondary reasoning
The opening chapter is a direct hit, but fortunately, such an explicit clip can still pass the review and the high ratings are mostly works of art.
Disadvantages: The narrative pace is very slow. I do not deny that this can make the characters in the novel more three-dimensional. However, in the field of short stories, some fragments can actually be streamlined. The protagonist is actually very vividly portrayed. Whether it is psychological description, action description, or language description, the main character is written in a large space. The descriptions of other characters may not add up to half of the protagonist. The early descriptions and characterizations became more reasonable when all the logic was reversed, but during the process of watching it, it was a bit difficult for me to keep reading, because it is very simple to write several paragraphs about one thing. Other than that, there are almost no shortcomings.
Advantages: The narration is very good, at least I didn't think about this kind of reversal. There is a database. If you have read Dashan's "The Museum of Conspiracy", you can actually think of it. The main line of the whole novel is restoration, and the branch line is the case. The case is not very complicated, but the solution is very clever and exciting!
Also, the foreshadowing is well laid out and can easily be missed if you don't pay attention. The final recycling is extremely smooth and wonderful!
The protagonist has the shadow of Chandler's Marlowe, a book that is very enjoyable to read.
Especially the description of Setsuko Furuya in the book reminds me of my mother, who always likes to hoard things. "She doesn't buy it because she likes it, but as long as she has the atmosphere to buy it, she will buy it no matter what." This sentence is really true. However, this also made me understand my mother's behavior better. Maybe she just wanted a sense of satisfaction. In short, this book is not only a mystery novel, but also an exploration of human nature. It is worth reading.
I heard it recommended by others, and I thought it looked good after watching it.
After reading this novel, I realized that I had really been deceived by the author. Very interesting and worth reading.
The style of the whole book feels very humorous and relaxed, and the narration is so cunning that it makes people laugh or cry.
The author really took advantage of it
Not bad, worth a look
This deception really deceived me.
Although it feels like there are some minor plot flaws for the sake of narrative, overall it's still a good book.
I was attracted at first, but later I found out that it was very interesting, a little deep, a little pyrotechnic, a little delicate, a little rough, a little exotic.
It has great stamina, it's really a sad and romantic story
I thought that the separated chapters were just simple separate narratives, but in the end, they still spanned a large amount of time. Being able to uncover the secrets of fraud involving the elderly makes him an excellent detective who once worked as an undercover agent in the underworld.
It's both logical and unexpected, a wonderful story
It is worth collecting the physical book, it is pure love, inspirational and positive energy [shy]
I just found the book on the bookstore and it was a pleasure to read it! At first, I thought it was a cold-hearted young detective mystery novel that exposed the darkness of society. Later, I turned around and discovered that it was a familiar narrative trick. However, I was indeed deceived, and I reconfirmed that I was not wrong. I read other book reviews online and found that although there are some logical loopholes, it's not a bad idea to call it a masterpiece. Secondly, I really like the discussion about what you can do after you get old. As the hero said: "Your negative thinking is very problematic. Why can't I be an exception? Who made the rules? If I am an exception, how will you know if you don't live and try? When you compare yourself with outstanding people, you immediately think that you are incomparable, which is equivalent to admitting defeat before even entering the battle. Only those who believe in their own possibility have the qualifications to realize this possibility. As long as I live for one day, I have to do everything. Even if I know that I will die tomorrow, I will do what I need to do today meticulously. As for you, don't give up on life casually. If you really want to give up, it's not too late to give up after I die, right? Before I die, spend the rest of your life happily with me!" I hope I can face life as positively as he does [Top post][Top post]
I thought it was a story about young people, but in the end I found out it was a story about a group of elderly people... I thought it was a beautiful encounter for Naruse to save Sakura Ando from committing suicide in the subway station. Unexpectedly, Setsuko Furuya pretended to be Sakura Asamiya, but she fell in love with him and hated him. She wanted to kill him but couldn't bear it because she was a crazy shopper who bought a club and owed a huge sum of money and became an accomplice of the club (killing old people to cheat insurance money). The death of Sera, My Spy, turned out to be nothing more than a self-acted and self-directed story about stealing fans into the stomach and then committing suicide by rotting in the stomach. We are all guilty, and my crime is to pretend that Ando, who committed suicide, is still alive, collects a pension for his daughter Chie, a heart-warming story...
Recommended for men, there is detective, first love, underworld, and true love. Although the age is a bit unexpected, and the ending is not what ordinary people can predict, but if you can't stand him, it is a foreshadowing, and you can't say anything. But I (nande) looked really good.
Cool! It feels like watching a big movie, but the best thing about this book is that it can only be presented in the form of a novel! In the end, there is an unexpected and satisfying feeling. It is indeed a masterpiece of narrative trickery. After reading it, I will recall the writing technique. There are so many wonderful things. It is worth reading!
The beauty of autumn leaves ripples like water, and the heart of a young man is like an eternal lotus. I will only be crazy about you for the rest of my life. Youth never abandons you. It just stops and waits for you. It falls inadvertently and creates ripples...
It's really imaginative, and it subverted my understanding of mystery novels. When the stories were connected in the end, I wanted to cry. The end of the book fills people with hope of living, and the protagonist's experience is also very interesting. It also contains some depictions of human nature. It is a mystery novel well worth reading.
This kind of tough guy style feels good. The protagonist has a strong sense of justice, good conduct, and is kind. He is very different from those tough guy detectives in Europe and America who rely on beating, smashing, robbing, and threatening witnesses to solve cases.
I was a bit surprised after reading it. I didn't expect that the protagonist's identity spans such a long time [laughing and crying][laughing and crying] The reversal is pretty good, and the intention of cherishing the present and the future is also pretty good. But the disadvantage is the love between Tora and Setsuko... It feels like the process of Tora falling in love with Setsuko is not very real, more like wanting to save her Overall it's okay.
It is a late song of twilight love, and also a debtor's tragedy. It has amazing reasoning, unexpected ending, structure of grass and snakes and gray lines, and unique and multiple parallel story advancements, making it difficult to put it down.
The ending is indeed unexpected. There are also many practical issues about population aging throughout the article. Japan is aging many years earlier than China, but China is also about to age. You can look more at the problems that appeared in Japanese society at the beginning. It is possible that we will also face them in the future. We will have more coping capabilities and feel the life thoughts of the elderly. Regarding the plot of the article, the narrated feeling is logical and unexpected. After reading the ending, I found that many details have been reflected in the previous article. I won't go into spoilers. It is still worth reading. There are many golden sentences and sentences of life philosophy. I think everyone may have the anxiety and sentimentality from middle age to old age. You can also read this book. Maybe many things that you feel you cannot let go of will gradually loosen. Young people will slow down and older people will stabilize their anxiety.
The best book I've read recently. It's been a long time since I've had a book with a twist that left me speechless. What I've been looking for is this feeling of mouth and eyes wide open. This reversal setting can be ranked in the top of Japan's reasoning list. I think it can be compared with the Klein pot. Japanese literature is still suitable for me. I always feel that I can't read the translations of European and American classics. It's weird. I wonder if the languages of East Asian countries have something in common after translation, such as word order and so on. The following contains spoilers↓ Both the male and female protagonists are elderly. This is the biggest twist in the book. It should belong to the social school of reasoning. It focuses on the aging problem in Japan. It is completely China's pioneer service. The author also keeps urging people to live on, even if they are older, it is never too late to do anything.
Let's put it this way It's like watching a movie, The male and female protagonists appear in no particular order. They always appear in each other's eyes with the youthful beauty they first saw. This was ignored by me I guess what this story tells us: Not a memory from the past But as a new life in front of me interpretation intertwined
Published in 2003, it is a socialist reasoning, involving the issue of population aging, and used narrative techniques. After reading it, I had doubts about the title of the book, so I searched it and found out that cherry trees bloom first and then grow leaves. People who know the common sense of this creature should have already understood it.
At first I thought the protagonists were all young people, but at the end I found out that they were all elderly people in their 70s.
The cover is very beautiful, and so is the title, which fully demonstrates the pure beauty of cherry blossoms. However, at the end of the story, I don't know if it's something wrong with me or something else. It may be that my feelings are different. I was indeed surprised by the ending, but it was not as shocking as other books of a similar type that I have seen. This book is indeed good in my opinion, but it didn't shock me too much, but not much, even if it was indeed some wonderful things.
Short stories that focus on restoration and secondary reasoning The opening chapter is a direct hit, but fortunately, such an explicit clip can still pass the review and the high ratings are mostly works of art. Disadvantages: The narrative pace is very slow. I do not deny that this can make the characters in the novel more three-dimensional. However, in the field of short stories, some fragments can actually be streamlined. The protagonist is actually very vividly portrayed. Whether it is psychological description, action description, or language description, the main character is written in a large space. The descriptions of other characters may not add up to half of the protagonist. The early descriptions and characterizations became more reasonable when all the logic was reversed, but during the process of watching it, it was a bit difficult for me to keep reading, because it is very simple to write several paragraphs about one thing. Other than that, there are almost no shortcomings. Advantages: The narration is very good, at least I didn't think about this kind of reversal. There is a database. If you have read Dashan's "The Museum of Conspiracy", you can actually think of it. The main line of the whole novel is restoration, and the branch line is the case. The case is not very complicated, but the solution is very clever and exciting! Also, the foreshadowing is well laid out and can easily be missed if you don't pay attention. The final recycling is extremely smooth and wonderful!
The protagonist has the shadow of Chandler's Marlowe, a book that is very enjoyable to read.
Especially the description of Setsuko Furuya in the book reminds me of my mother, who always likes to hoard things. "She doesn't buy it because she likes it, but as long as she has the atmosphere to buy it, she will buy it no matter what." This sentence is really true. However, this also made me understand my mother's behavior better. Maybe she just wanted a sense of satisfaction. In short, this book is not only a mystery novel, but also an exploration of human nature. It is worth reading.
I heard it recommended by others, and I thought it looked good after watching it.
After reading this novel, I realized that I had really been deceived by the author. Very interesting and worth reading.
The style of the whole book feels very humorous and relaxed, and the narration is so cunning that it makes people laugh or cry.
The author really took advantage of it
Not bad, worth a look
This deception really deceived me.
Although it feels like there are some minor plot flaws for the sake of narrative, overall it's still a good book.
I was attracted at first, but later I found out that it was very interesting, a little deep, a little pyrotechnic, a little delicate, a little rough, a little exotic.
It has great stamina, it's really a sad and romantic story
I thought that the separated chapters were just simple separate narratives, but in the end, they still spanned a large amount of time. Being able to uncover the secrets of fraud involving the elderly makes him an excellent detective who once worked as an undercover agent in the underworld.
It's both logical and unexpected, a wonderful story
It is worth collecting the physical book, it is pure love, inspirational and positive energy [shy]