Kosodate Gokko (P+D)

[Machine Translation] An elementary school teacher and his wife in a cold village in the northeastern part of Japan happened to take care of a girl named Rihua, who had never been to school before. Since she was five years old, she had been living with an old painter and moving from place to place. The turbulent days of the strict "male teacher," Liika, who has not acquired a shred of social common sense, and the "female teacher," who stands between them and the "male teacher," and who is constantly moving from one place to another, begin. In 1979, the story was made into a movie, which was a great success. The book also includes a sister work, "Oya-modoki: A Novel by Minoru Kida," which is said to be more true to life.

東北の寒村で小学校教師をしている夫妻が、ひょんなことから学校に通ったことのない少女・吏華を預かることになった。吏華は5歳のころより老画家に連れられて、住まいを転々としていたのだ。厳格な“男先生”と社会常識のかけらも身につけていない吏華、その間に立って右往左往する“女先生”の波乱の日々が始まる―。子育てとは、教育とは何かを問う問題作で、1975年に第41回文學界新人賞、1976年に第76回直木賞を受賞。1979年には映画化され大きな反響を呼んだ。より事実をなぞっているといわれる姉妹作「親もどき“小説・きだみのる”」を同時収録。