Teihen Jinsei Kara Ashita Wo Motometenai to Omo Na Jinsei Un

[Machine Translation] My father did not work and my mother ran away from home. He spent his childhood in a leaky hut, eating wild grass and surviving on hunger. By the time the author remembers his childhood, his family had collapsed. In order to "eat," from the third year of junior high school he lived in a half-farmer, half-craftsman blacksmith shop, working without a day off except for New Year's and Bon holidays, carrying water for cooking, carrying manure to the fields, working in the rice paddies, and doing the hard work of the blacksmith shop. He cried many times because it was so hard, but he worked hard, dreaming of tomorrow, and after graduating from night high school, he went to Tokyo, a place he had longed for. This nonfiction book shows us what it means to live.

父は働かず、母は家出。雨漏りのする掘立小屋で野草を食べ飢えを凌いだ少年時代…。著者が物心のついた頃には家庭は崩壊。"食う"ために中学3年から半農半工の鍛冶屋に住み込み、炊事用の水運びから、畑への肥たご運び、田んぼの仕事、鍛冶屋のきつい仕事まで、正月と盆以外は休みもなく働く。あまりの辛さに何度も泣いたが、明日を夢見て必死に頑張り、夜間高校卒業後は憧れの東京へ-。"生きる"ことの意味を教えてくれるノンフィクション。