Shigan No Ie (P+D)

[Machine Translation] A Korean woman who grew up in a wealthy family, but whose life was turned upside down when her father was killed in the Korean War and her sister was taken away by the northern army, and I, a Korean correspondent for a newspaper company, were attracted to each other. We kept in touch across the straits after returning to Japan, but we had not made up our minds to get married. I felt uneasy when I thought about "the difference in country, the difference in customs, the difference in the degree of living between her and her father, who apparently grew up in a very luxurious household, although I do not know what kind of job he had, and the future of our unborn child," and even my friends and family were against it. Anyway, they registered their marriage and started their life together in Japan, but on the third or fourth day in Japan, she suddenly showed her violent temperament: "After a few moments of stony silence, her emotions suddenly began to swirl wildly, like a whirlwind, and she had no idea where they were headed. What will happen to their marriage, which seems to be caught in the middle of a big wave? This is a famous novel that won the Hirabayashi Taiko Award.

裕福な家庭に育ちながら、朝鮮戦争で父が殺されたり、姉が北側の軍隊に連行されたりして人生がくるってしまった韓国人女性と、新聞社の韓国特派員を務める〈私〉。「一種投げやりに不安定な心の匂い」に惹かれて、日本に帰国後も海峡を挟んで連絡を取り合っていたが、結婚する決心はついていなかった。「国のちがい、習慣のちがい、父親がどういう仕事をしていたのかはわからないがかなりぜいたくに育ったらしい彼女との生活程度のちがい―生まれてくるはずの子供の将来のこと」を考えると不安になるし、友人や家族まで反対したからだ。ともあれ、婚姻届けを提出し、日本でふたりの生活を始めたものの、来日三、四日目には「きつい表情で黙りこんだあと、彼女の感情は不意に激しく渦巻き始めて、自分でもどこに向うのか見当のつかぬつむじ風のように荒れ出す」という激しい性格があらわになる。はたして、大波にもまれるような結婚生活の行方は―。平林たい子賞に輝いた、私小説の名篇。