In an unnoticed old house in a corner of Tokyo, there lives a family living a secret life. They live on their "grandma's" pension, work occasionally, and are used to wandering from store to store and stealing daily necessities.
One winter night, "Dad" Azhi found a little girl who had been kicked out of the house, and "stolen" her back to become a new family member.
Everyone spent a short and happy time together, but an accident caused a shocking truth to surface.
They also suddenly discovered that the family members who get along day and night have unspeakable past events and complicated connections hidden behind each other...
Reader comments
Everyone has two identities, everyone has two names. A strange fate brought a group of people who had no contact with each other together.
Aji just wants to teach Shota something.
Shota just wants to protect Rin-chan.
Shindai just wanted to have a child.
Hatsue just misses her husband.
Aki just wants to have a family.
This home is sweet, this home is dirty. This home is full of money and interests, and this home is full of family affection.
Aji's sudden kindness, Nobuyo's sudden maternal love...
Dirty and clean have never been so harmonious.
OK OK!
"Movies are not used to judge people, and directors are neither gods nor judges."
I haven't watched the movie yet, but this novel with more than 60,000 words that can be read in a few hours makes me really miserable.
I really like grandma and Aki. The care grandma gives to Aki makes me hate his parents. The novel shows that in the society at that time, the violence of abuse and beating was directed at children. Hypocritical justice has forgotten humanity and stabbed the victims of the times with sharp arrows. The victims cuddled up to each other with their body heat, and the scene of the warm relationship made people feel emotional. .
The unreasonable relationship but the perfect family love in it gave me a deeper understanding of the love between family members. I read it in more than an hour, but I have to reread it again and think about it for many hours. .
Thank you so much! My article happens to resonate with the same era!
In the end, this family that was put together was still separated. I can't explain the feeling. I don't know which ending is good. I may feel that it is fair to some people and unfair to others. It's all quite helpless [grievance]
I was interested in reading other people's book reviews. I read it once but I didn't quite understand it. I just felt a sense of depression. Although we are a family that got together for various reasons, there is also some warmth in it. "The relationship you choose is the strongest." Maybe this is true sometimes.
I don't know how many hours I spent reading it.
For the first time, I had incomprehensible emotions while writing a book review.
It's hard to say about the impact of morals and rules. Human nature is so delicately described, and everyone's social role and name are different at every level.
Although this is a "family of thieves", different people come together to form a family because of different love-hate entanglements. I can't say that their behavior and concepts are correct, but this "family of thieves" still makes me feel the warmth of mutual support and family affection. (This is my subjective feeling) In fact, they are also victims...
In a family that is not related by blood, everyone is like parts taken from different bad toys to form a shaky new toy. If you want to be a part of the playground of society for a long time, everyone must work hard, and the direction of your efforts is what individuals rely on for survival. But when you go east, he goes west, he goes north, you go south. Grandma Hatsue is the glue, but later the glue failed...
It's actually a very ordinary story, but I felt a little melancholy after reading it. The family that is kept together by stealing is obviously fake, but the warmth that people feel is real. The style is very Japanese, and there is a faint hope in the depression.
Although I finished reading it in a daze, I still feel that there are some sad or kind aspects in the family.
When I saw the title of the book on the homepage, I thought of a game called "Family Plan". A quick glance at the introduction shows that they are very similar.
But after reading carefully for a few minutes, I found that the two are actually very different, but I like them both.
The influence of the original family on a person is still too great
This book tells the story of a special family who steal for a living but have a warm family relationship. I particularly hated the person who kicked the little girl out of the house. Fortunately, she met the kind-hearted Aji. There is a sentence in it that impressed me deeply, "Your father is afraid of heights." This sentence from Aji made me feel that he is a very interesting person. Filled with profound insights into human nature and family, this book is well worth reading.
How should one judge a book like this? How much influence does childhood have on a person? Without their love and care, what would Juri's life be like?
Everyone has two identities, everyone has two names. A strange fate brought a group of people who had no contact with each other together. Aji just wants to teach Shota something. Shota just wants to protect Rin-chan. Shindai just wanted to have a child. Hatsue just misses her husband. Aki just wants to have a family. This home is sweet, this home is dirty. This home is full of money and interests, and this home is full of family affection. Aji's sudden kindness, Nobuyo's sudden maternal love... Dirty and clean have never been so harmonious.
OK OK! "Movies are not used to judge people, and directors are neither gods nor judges." I haven't watched the movie yet, but this novel with more than 60,000 words that can be read in a few hours makes me really miserable. I really like grandma and Aki. The care grandma gives to Aki makes me hate his parents. The novel shows that in the society at that time, the violence of abuse and beating was directed at children. Hypocritical justice has forgotten humanity and stabbed the victims of the times with sharp arrows. The victims cuddled up to each other with their body heat, and the scene of the warm relationship made people feel emotional. . The unreasonable relationship but the perfect family love in it gave me a deeper understanding of the love between family members. I read it in more than an hour, but I have to reread it again and think about it for many hours. . Thank you so much! My article happens to resonate with the same era!
In the end, this family that was put together was still separated. I can't explain the feeling. I don't know which ending is good. I may feel that it is fair to some people and unfair to others. It's all quite helpless [grievance]
I was interested in reading other people's book reviews. I read it once but I didn't quite understand it. I just felt a sense of depression. Although we are a family that got together for various reasons, there is also some warmth in it. "The relationship you choose is the strongest." Maybe this is true sometimes.
I don't know how many hours I spent reading it. For the first time, I had incomprehensible emotions while writing a book review. It's hard to say about the impact of morals and rules. Human nature is so delicately described, and everyone's social role and name are different at every level.
Although this is a "family of thieves", different people come together to form a family because of different love-hate entanglements. I can't say that their behavior and concepts are correct, but this "family of thieves" still makes me feel the warmth of mutual support and family affection. (This is my subjective feeling) In fact, they are also victims...
In a family that is not related by blood, everyone is like parts taken from different bad toys to form a shaky new toy. If you want to be a part of the playground of society for a long time, everyone must work hard, and the direction of your efforts is what individuals rely on for survival. But when you go east, he goes west, he goes north, you go south. Grandma Hatsue is the glue, but later the glue failed...
It's actually a very ordinary story, but I felt a little melancholy after reading it. The family that is kept together by stealing is obviously fake, but the warmth that people feel is real. The style is very Japanese, and there is a faint hope in the depression.
Although I finished reading it in a daze, I still feel that there are some sad or kind aspects in the family.
When I saw the title of the book on the homepage, I thought of a game called "Family Plan". A quick glance at the introduction shows that they are very similar. But after reading carefully for a few minutes, I found that the two are actually very different, but I like them both.
The influence of the original family on a person is still too great
This book tells the story of a special family who steal for a living but have a warm family relationship. I particularly hated the person who kicked the little girl out of the house. Fortunately, she met the kind-hearted Aji. There is a sentence in it that impressed me deeply, "Your father is afraid of heights." This sentence from Aji made me feel that he is a very interesting person. Filled with profound insights into human nature and family, this book is well worth reading.
How should one judge a book like this? How much influence does childhood have on a person? Without their love and care, what would Juri's life be like?