Kamisama No Karte (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Kazuto Kurihara is a twenty-nine-year-old internist who works at a 24-hour, 365-day hospital in Shinshu, Japan, and is not good at being sad. There is always a shortage of doctors at his workplace, and it is not unusual for him to work 40 hours straight. As his days go round and round, he receives an invitation from the medical department of his alma mater, Shinano University. If he returned to the university, he would be able to learn cutting-edge medicine. However, he wants to be a doctor who works for patients who are about to die, and who cannot be treated at a university hospital.... An unexpected gift from an elderly cancer patient, Ms. Azumi, pushes the back of the troubled Ichiho. The long-awaited paperback edition of this bestseller, which won second place in the 2010 Honya Taisho (Bookstore Grand Prize) and brought warm tears to the hearts of the whole of Japan.

栗原一止は信州にある「二四時間、三六五日対応」の病院で働く、悲しむことが苦手な二十九歳の内科医である。職場は常に医師不足、四十時間連続勤務だって珍しくない。ぐるぐるぐるぐる回る毎日に、母校の信濃大学医局から誘いの声がかかる。大学に戻れば最先端の医療を学ぶことができる。だが大学病院では診てもらえない、死を前にした患者のために働く医者でありたい…。悩む一止の背中を押してくれたのは、高齢の癌患者・安曇さんからの思いがけない贈り物だった。二〇一〇年本屋大賞第二位、日本中を温かい涙に包み込んだベストセラー、待望の文庫化。