Ni Nin Kiri

[Machine Translation] The woman killed the man she loved, cut off his pubic region, and escaped. Yoshiya, a screenwriter, encountered the Sadamasa Abe case when he was a boy. Since then, he has been searching for people related to Sada and collecting testimonies. He has sought out childhood friends, his first love, the first man he ever met, the peddler who sold him to a geisha, the school principal who encouraged his rehabilitation, the victim's wife, and now, 30 years after the incident, Sada Abe himself, the proprietress of a small restaurant.... At the end of the interplay of their testimonies, the "truth" in Sada's heart begins to overflow. The "Abe Sada Case," a bizarre murder in the Showa era. What made her do it? This is an unparalleled novel of biography that depicts the ultimate in sexual love and human karma with overwhelming power of the brush.

その女は愛する男を殺し、陰部を切り取り逃亡した―。脚本家の吉弥は、少年時代に阿部定事件に遭遇。以来、ゆえあって定の関係者を探し出し、証言を集め続けてきた。幼なじみ、初恋の人、初めての男、芸妓屋に売った女衒、更生を促した学校長、被害者の妻、そして、事件から三十年が経ち、小料理屋の女将となっていた阿部定自身...。それぞれの証言が交錯する果てに、定の胸に宿る“真実”が溢れだす―。昭和の猟奇殺人「阿部定事件」。何が彼女をそうさせたのか?性愛の極致を、人間の業を、圧倒的な筆力で描き出す比類なき評伝小説。