First Love

[Machine Translation] The 159th Naoki Prize Winner! In this world, people cannot go off the rails and continue to suffer. I think I will continue to think about the meaning of crying without shedding tears. ( Actor Kentaro Sakaguchi ) On a summer evening, a college student, Kanna Seiyama, was arrested for walking along the Tama River covered in blood. She stopped by the art school where her father worked and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife she had purchased beforehand. She was in the middle of job hunting and was on her way home from a job interview when she committed the murder. Combined with her good looks, this incident was widely covered by the media. Why did she have to kill her father? Yuki Makabe, a clinical psychologist, is asked to write a nonfiction book about this case, and she meets with Kanna and the people around her. What does this reveal about Kanna's past? A masterpiece depicting the labyrinth of the name "family.

第159回直木賞受賞作! 「この世界で、人はレールからはずれることができず苦しみ続ける。涙を流さずに泣くことの意味を、僕はこれからも考えていくと思う。」(俳優・坂口健太郎) 夏の日の夕方、多摩川沿いを血まみれで歩いていた女子大生・聖山環菜が逮捕された。彼女は父親の勤務先である美術学校に立ち寄り、あらかじめ購入していた包丁で父親を刺殺した。環菜は就職活動の最中で、その面接の帰りに凶行に及んだのだった。環菜の美貌も相まって、この事件はマスコミで大きく取り上げられた。なぜ彼女は父親を殺さなければならなかったのか? 臨床心理士の真壁由紀は、この事件を題材としたノンフィクションの執筆を依頼され、環菜やその周辺の人々と面会を重ねることになる。そこから浮かび上がってくる、環菜の過去とは? 「家族」という名の迷宮を描く傑作長篇。