Tomogui

[Machine Translation] If you fail to die, if you fail to live, then you are not a human being. You are not a human being at all, but you are a different creature. Kumazume, who was hunting alone with a dog as his partner in the remote mountains in the late Meiji period, one day found a wounded man following a trail of blood. The man said that he was chasing a bear called "Ana-nazu," which does not hibernate.... The end of the exchange of life without reason, interweaving the karma and pathos of man and beast - the highest point of Kumazume's bear literature!

【第170回 直木賞受賞作】 死に損ねて、かといって生き損ねて、ならば己は人間ではない。人間のなりをしながら、最早違う生き物だ。明治後期、人里離れた山中で犬を相棒にひとり狩猟をして生きていた熊爪は、ある日、血痕を辿った先で負傷した男を見つける。男は、冬眠していない熊「穴持たず」を追っていたと言うが...。人と獣の業と悲哀を織り交ぜた、理屈なき命の応酬の果ては―令和の熊文学の最高到達点!!