Kimi Ha Gokai Shiteiru (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] I told you that a person who calls himself 'me' can't be a gambler. I told you that a person who calls himself 'me' cannot be a gambler." The only hobby of the young man, who is advised by his fiancee, is bicycle racing. The title story is about a young man who tries to win a big bet with his dying father's winning ticket. The other six stories include "This Boring Life," in which a lone man confesses that he has been living alone for 13 years with the money he made from bicycle racing, and "Human Waste," in which a man who stopped buying tickets after an incident eight years ago goes to a bicycle race track in pursuit of his brother who has taken the company's money. The collection is full of encounters and partings, the moments of sadness that shine in life, and the universal psychology of human beings, all written with a sense of transparency and set at a bicycle race track.

「ねえ聞いてるの?自分のことを僕って呼ぶ人間がギャンブラーになんかなれるわけないって、あたしは言ったのよ」婚約者がたしなめる青年の、唯一の趣味は競輪。死期が近い父親の当たり車券を元手に、彼が大口勝負に挑もうとする表題作。競輪で儲けた金で十三年間暮らす独りぼっちの男が告白する「この退屈な人生」、八年前のある出来事をきっかけに車券を買わなくなった男が会社の金を持ち出したという兄を追って競輪場へと向かう「人間の屑」など六篇収録。出会いと別れ、切ない人生に輝く一瞬と普遍的な人間心理を、競輪場を舞台に透明感あふれる文章で綴った作品集。