新地橋: 深川澪通り木戸番小屋
A linked historical fiction series set in Fukagawa, Edo, portraying the lives and feelings of people who pass through a gatekeeper's hut. Warmth of common life is gently layered with the sadness carried from the past.
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Work Information
At a small gatekeeper's hut in Fukagawa, people's pasts and feelings gather.
The work displays Aiko Kitahara's strengths in historical fiction: detailed urban life and delicate human feeling. It is driven less by incidents than by moments of care between people.
Review Summaries
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The series is read for its restrained portrayal of warmth and shadow in the lives of ordinary Edo townspeople.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 講談社
- Published
- 1995-12-01
- Pages
- 250 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784062078450
- ISBN-10
- 4062078457
- Price
- 187 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
Amazon.co.jp: 新地橋: 深川澪通り木戸番小屋 : 亞以子, 北原: 本
1969年、『ママは知らなかったのよ』で第1回新潮新人賞受賞、『粉雪舞う』で小説現代新人賞の佳作。1989年、『深川澪通り木戸番小屋』で泉鏡花賞受賞。1993年、『恋忘れ草』で直木賞受賞。