Sugar Sugar introduced Keigo Higashino's 5 divine works a few days ago, namely "White Night", "The Dedication of Suspect X", "Malice", "Relief Grocery Store", and "New Ginseng".
Today, I will continue to introduce the works of Keigo Higashino in Japan, and today's 5 articles are even more wonderful.
NO 1 The Secret was published in 1998.
The book begins with a fantasy twist, telling the story of the male protagonist, Heisuke Sugita, whose soul is strangely resurrected in her daughter's body after his wife and daughter are in a car accident, and the lives of the two people have since fallen into the game of fate. If you are intimate with your wife, you are violating your daughter. If you keep your distance from your daughter, you will not be able to maintain a normal relationship between husband and wife. For a long time, both people felt that the scene was gradually getting out of control and becoming physically and mentally exhausted. The book opens its mind and brings to life the paradox of humanity in its entirety.
There are no genius detectives, no persistent policemen, not even cases, no suspects in "Secret", but they are particularly empathetic and resonate. Keigo Higashino started with a subtle and ordinary life, and the protagonist of "Secret" is just an ordinary person who is too ordinary to be ordinary, but he has encountered great changes, and his entire life has been completely subverted. The experience of this ordinary person has fluctuated several times, from dazedness, gradual calm, complete explosion, tearing heart and lungs to mixed feelings, in Higashino Keigo's pen magically has the power to touch people's hearts. Although the story structure is incredible, under the delicate portrayal of Higashino, it still brings readers a shock that cannot be calmed for a long time.
"Secret" won the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, the Japanese version exceeded 2 million copies, and was voted the second most popular work by Japanese readers, second only to "White Night"; it was adapted into a movie in 1999 and adapted into a TV series in 2010.
NO 2 "The Relief of the Holy Virgin" was published in 2008.
The book's methods of killing are theoretically feasible, but in practice they are completely impossible.
Makoto was poisoned at home, but his wife, the biggest suspect, had an ironclad alibi. Professor Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, once again challenged the difficult impossible crime, and after analysis, the answer was "imaginary solution". That is, mathematically feasible, but completely impossible in reality. A virtuous and gentle wife, in order to win back her husband's love, went so far as to orchestrate this "completely impossible" crime.
Japanese drama "The Relief of the Holy Virgin"
The story of "The Relief of the Holy Virgin" has the sharpness and delicacy of a scalpel, and the language is plain and straightforward. The characters depict no color or a little ink, and mostly use words and actions to express their personality, and the reader sees Ayane's loneliness, the ruthlessness of filial piety, the weakness of The Magnificent, the wisdom of Yukawa, the stubbornness of the Inland Sea, and the warmth of Kusanagi. The logical reasoning is exhaustive and sufficient, and even has the suspicion of being verbose, but it allows the reader to understand it at a glance and does not need to ponder, which fully shows the characteristics of Higashino's "science narrative". The brilliance of the book is not that it sets up a puzzle of reverse organs, but that it writes about the entanglement of women's feelings and protection of men.
Keigo Higashino may be trying to convey the message that as long as a woman loses the man's love for her, the man will die without a place to die.
NO 3 "After School" was published in 1985.
The protagonist, Maejima, teaches at a girls' high school, but he himself has no interest in teaching, and is privately called a "machine" by his students, but because Maejima is secretly calculated three times after school, he is very nervous. Maejima is the instructor of the archery club, at the end of an after-school club activity, when he went to the locker room with keiko, the president of the archery club, he found the Murahashi teacher who was poisoned in the male locker room, and the police immediately launched a series of investigations, because it has been plotted, so Maejima sensei is also very concerned about the case, and learns that the school's Aso teacher has a close relationship with Murahashi teacher, but the case has not made much progress. However, at the school sports day not long after, Takei-sensei, who originally played the beggar, offered to change roles with Maejima-sensei to play the joker, but was unexpectedly poisoned by the poisonous water in the joker's prop bottle. The poison happened to be the same as the poison that Murahashi-sensei had, and the police, knowing it, thought that the real target of the murderer might be Maejima. A few days later, Maejima was hit by a small car again, but fortunately was rescued by student Yoko Takahara, and at the same time heard the real secret of the case from Takahara's mouth. After his own analysis and evidence collection, Maejima finally found the murderer of the two teachers, and the case was solved. However, Maejima was still plotted and injured, and the murderer was...
Stills from the stage play "After School"
This is Keigo Higashino's famous work, through a series of assassinations, the fusion of hazy love and the crush of the opposite sex, the final shocking ending, I believe can surprise you. When solving the mystery of the murder in the chamber, Keigo Higashino arranged a very excellent clue, that is, a clever female high school student first cracked the secret room technique, and various clues showed that this was a very effective preparation, and it was a stroke of God for the final case to be such an arrangement.
NO 4 Red Finger was published in 2006.
The work uses a two-angle narrative to tell the story of an ordinary middle-aged man from a working class, Akio Maehara, who comes home from work one day to find that his son, who is in junior high school, has killed a little girl. He wanted his fifteen-year-old son Naomi to turn himself in to the police station, but he gave up under pressure from his wife, Yaeko. So, in order to exonerate his son, he resisted the fear in his heart and the pressure of his conscience, transferred the body to the bathroom of Ginkgo Park, and designed a scam to destroy any incriminating evidence related to the murder of the little girl in the family. Unable to avoid police questioning, he blamed his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and found a scapegoat for his son. However, at the last moment, he confesses the truth because of his conscience and the call of his mother, Maehara Akie, to his love.
The Japanese film "Red Finger" starred Hiroshi Abe and Misha Kuroki
If "White Night" and "The Dedication of Suspect X" both contain a deep love of love, then "Red Finger" is about the sad reality of today's society, the reality of lovelessness. The two mothers, Maehara Yaeko and Maehara Masae, are in stark contrast to the two practices of their respective sons who have made mistakes: Yaeko blindly possesses and dotes on her son, and even after learning that her son has killed people, for the sake of her son's future, as a pretext, she tries everything to prevent her husband from calling the police and surrenders herself, believing that she is saving her son by doing so; on the contrary, Maehara Masae does not "sacrifice herself to save her grandson" as Akio expected, but constantly reminds her son of the cliff in her own way. Be brave in the face of mistakes. Through a red-painted finger, Maehara helped the police uncover the truth.
NO 5 "Meteor Trip" was published in 2008.
In order to see the Andromeda meteor shower, the young three brothers and sisters secretly went out late at night, and their parents died tragically at home. Their childhood was deprived of it, and the trajectory of their lives deviated completely from the norm. In the name of a meteor, the three brothers and sisters vowed to find the murderer.
The three ill-fated siblings make a living from fraud and sneak into the gray areas of the city, with sad memories and sour nightmares always in sight. In the blink of an eye for 14 years, the statute of limitations for the prosecution of the case will be exhausted, and their painstaking search has suddenly made a surprising discovery. However, they gambled everything on their careful plans, but they were dealt with by the fate of the bone marrow...
The Japanese TV series "Meteor Trip" starred Kazuya Ninomiya, Ryo Nishikido and Kei Toda
The portrayal of each character in the book is very clear, the mature and resolute big brother, the strict second brother and the intelligent, beautiful and kind sister are like people in real life. The experience of their parents dying at a young age made them precocious, and after being repeatedly deceived, they also embarked on a life of defrauding others of their money. However, they have never lost their positive attitude, never lost the courage to face setbacks and the determination to find the real murderer of their parents. But most importantly, I saw the constant affection between brothers and sisters, the stumbling block that binds the three of them closely; Keigo Higashino still uses this book to tell the most beautiful emotions that exist between human beings, that is, love and hope.
This novel was not written by me, but by the characters themselves. --Keigo Higashino
Perfect for first-time readers of Higashino, Meteor Trip is an easy-to-read and intriguing book, Yomiuri Shimbun
Adapted into a TV series, Meteor Trip was the biggest winner of the 2008 Japanese novel, Yomiuri Shimbun
After the breathtakingly breathtaking depiction, the climax lived up to expectations. ——Tetsuo Matsuda (editor)
It's a book with a lot of love, and everything in the book is beyond my imagination. - Akisuke Tanihara (Actor)
The level is indeed not ordinary. -----------------
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