This is the family affection of the sacrifice of father's love and mother's love, which is a legendary story spanning more than ten years intertwined with regret, pain and expectation.
What is parental love? It is the truest feeling in the world, not asking for anything in return, giving wholeheartedly.
The mother who held the child for several hours in the flood, after the crash, found that the parents used their bodies to firmly cover the child's body, and in the ruins of the earthquake, the mother used her body to support the child's small living space until the child was rescued........
"When the Prayer Ends" is Keigo Higashino's touching and deeply affectionate masterpiece.
"Listen to me and live happily. Watching over your growth and success is the whole meaning of my life, and the more you grow and succeed, the more it is a curse on my destiny. ”
The novel depicts the love for parents and the love for their children, and the prayer for happiness is repeated and heavy, and it firmly grasps the reader's heart. ——Nihon Keizai Shimbun
The work won the 48th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Award and ranked second in the weekly Bunkharu Mystery Novels list.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > prolific writer of social mystery novels, Keigo Higashino</h1>
Once again, I will go out of my way to introduce keigo Higashino, the author of this book
A god of speculative fiction, he is a well-known mystery novelist in Japan, and has been sought after his work was published in China in 2007, and has been called a "phenomenon".) writer. "White Night", "Relief Grocery Store", "The Dedication of Suspect X" and so on have not only become best-selling books, but also been put on the screen. His works are full of supreme good and darkness, just as in an interview he talked about "the monologues of human nature, the coldness of society, these are propositions that human beings always need to pay attention to", so Compared with goodness, Higashino Keigo is better at describing the hidden evil of human nature, the kind of evil that lurks in the depths of the soul so that he has never discovered it.
Keigo Higashino started with fresh and smooth campus reasoning in the early days, basically the standard "intrinsic reasoning", just like our favorite "Detective Conan", good at showing intelligence, impressing readers with exquisite and bizarre plots, uncovering the fog layer by layer to discover the truth behind the case. But this kind of writing method also more and more restricts his development, so there is a "snub" of "after school" for ten years, after all, there are so many ways to kill people, and the writer's repeated show IQ will make readers aesthetically tired. After that, Higashino's creation gradually broke through the framework of traditional reasoning, and was involved in suspense, science fiction, society and other fields, while the works can also be literary, ideological and entertaining, becoming "social reasoning", paying more attention to the social significance of the case or dissecting human nature, bringing readers a fresh reading experience.
Keigo Higashino's works are quite popular in the film and television industry, and many of his works have been adapted into films or TV series, such as the movies "After School", "Secret", "Fate", "Murder by the Lake", "Transformation", "The Dedication of Suspect X", "White Night", "Detective Galileo" and so on.
The novel introduced to you today belongs to the "Malice" series, and it is also a wonderful case in the Kaga Detective Collection.
Although it belongs to the "Malice" series, I did not feel the malice of "Malice" and "Red Finger", but felt the deep, helpless and ashamed love of my parents. Malice should be a deliberate, subjective and vicious idea, not a crime of passion forced by helplessness here, and it is true that killing people under the pretext of fatherly love must be a big mistake, but it is a bit far-fetched to attribute it to malice.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > this is a tragedy for two families</h1>
01. Finally see the fog behind Kaga
The male protagonist of Keigo Higashino's series of mystery novels.
Tall and thin, broad shoulders, obvious facial contours, deep eyes, pointed chin; because he does not smoke, his teeth are very white, his smile is cheerful, but in the search scene, he is sharp-eyed; he is not able to speak well, nor is he silent, his personality is calm and rigorous, he is serious and serious, and he has a leadership temperament. However, after becoming a criminal policeman, he often acted alone, and although he was from the Faculty of Letters, he was also involved in the fields of physical and chemical information science in engineering.
This is a somewhat melancholy detective, his body is always shrouded in a layer of fog, obviously smart and hardworking, but only willing to live in such a small police station as Nihonbashi, with his ability to have better development. Confused feelings with his father, seemingly indifferent but always in his heart.
What is he looking for? What kind of unspeakable hidden under his melancholy exterior?
"When the Prayer Ends", he finally finds the person he has been looking for, and his melancholy has an answer.
There is a very famous western proverb "A gentleman can flirt with the inferior barmaid, while a lady cannot throw a flying kiss at the postman." Because a man's waist is bent and can be straightened up, while a woman can't." This sentence may seem to many people now, but in the social environment at that time, it was undoubtedly the truth. Or at the moment, this is still a measure for many people, which is very unfair, but it is true.
One such example is Kyoichiro Kaga's mother, Yuriko Kaga, whose father, Takashi Ryu, was a police officer and was born into a very good family with social status. Because of his love, he resisted the pressure to marry Yuriko, Kaga's mother, who had been a sake attendant in Shinjuku when she was young. Their marriage was opposed by the family, and Yuriko was under considerable pressure, especially after giving birth to Kyoichiro, who felt that her former profession would one day bring shame to her son, so she suffered from depression. The busy Longzheng did not notice his wife's abnormality. When She was in elementary school in Kaga, Yuriko was suddenly asked by her son one night, "Mom, what are you doing", and when she came back to find herself holding a knife in her hand for no reason, she suspected that she was suffering from depression, and she was worried that she would one day lose control and kill her son, so she left a note and ran away from home. She came alone to work at the Seven Bar in Sendai City for sixteen years and met her best friend Kangdai, where she met Asami Hiromi's father, Tadao Asami. A man and a woman with similar grievances comforted each other, and eventually she died alone in poverty and pain. Tadao Asai was entrusted with handing over her relic to Kyoichiro, and the note left in the relic read "Name of the bridge near the Nihonbashi Bridge from January to December" as an important clue to the case "When the prayer ends".
02. Support the cruel family affection of the famous director's dazzling stage
More than a decade passed since Kaga received his mother's relic. A woman is killed in a cheap apartment, and the person who rented the apartment is gone. A wall calendar was found at the scene of the crime, which had the names of the twelve bridges in Tokyo written on a monthly basis. The police officer Kyoichiro Kaga froze suddenly, and the same thing had appeared in his mother's relic.
In the continued investigation, it was found that the case was inextricably linked to the female director Hiromi Asai, whose father was Tadao Asami, the man who contacted him to hand over his mother's relics.
This man's life can only be described as painful and cruel, he was cheated out of all the money by his wife, and he wanted to commit suicide with his daughter, but on the night when he was preparing to commit suicide, his daughter accidentally killed Mutsuo Echikawa. In order to save his daughter's future, Asakai Tadao decided to pretend to be a dead person and disguise himself with the body of Mutsuo Echikawa to cover up the fact that his daughter had killed people. This is the survival instinct of people in desperate situations, and it is also the love of fathers for their daughters that cannot be described in words. Since then, let her daughter live as an orphan, so that her life will lose the possibility of being with her daughter, and she can no longer greet her warmly and can no longer witness her growth by her side. Emotions can only be conveyed by looking at each other from a distance and with only a few words. Living as Mutsuo Echikawa is the greatest curse on their father and daughter, who will carry this heavy cross for the rest of their lives, and stealing their lives is the punishment that Asakai Tadao is destined for for the rest of his life, he did not think of hurting anyone again, but the world or the difference between thoughts is so cruel. In order to protect his daughter's perfect life, he kills the innocent Naemura teacher and Miss Oshitani, who may have discovered the secret. In the end, Asakai Tadao realized that the secret was to be investigated by the police, so he decided to sacrifice himself to continue to protect his daughter's "bright and promising" future. Father's love was originally a deep, sincere, and pure feeling in the world, but in "When the Prayer Ends", "Father's Love" becomes a motive for indiscriminately killing innocents.
The twelve Japanese bridges that appear repeatedly in the novel do not come to the surface until the identity of Tadao Asami is revealed, and the true meaning of this touching twelve bridges comes to the surface. Since the separation of father and daughter more than thirty years ago, the two have maintained contact by letters, and every time Tadao sends a letter, he writes down his father's concerned greetings in the name of his daughter's friend. Because Hiromi Asami is a public figure, in order not to implicate her daughter, the two agreed to meet on the day of the meeting, that is, on the NihonBashi every month, the two smiled at each other in the distance and passed by. The bridge is a metaphorical existence, symbolizing the cruel reality that father and daughter can never live together because of many factors, and only a quick meeting on the bridge to express their deep love for each other.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >what kind of life will we continue if we make a mistake? </h1>
03. The shackles of affectionate love
Parental love is the most sincere, innocent, and unrequited feeling in the world.
Children passively receive this love, even if it is sometimes so heavy.
Each of us is doing what we think is right, but is this the right choice really the right one?
Kaga's mother, in order not to shame her son, lived alone until she died of illness in solitude, and his father spent his life blaming himself for losing his wife. Fleeing will not solve the problem, it will only bring more problems. If her mother did not leave, but chose to live a strong life, ignoring the accusations of others, what would the family look like? Is it really worse than a wife and daughter?
04. Correct mistakes and move forward lightly
The father in Wings of the Unicorn discovers a big mistake his son and several of his teammates made a few years ago, causing one of the children to become vegetative. And his children were also saddled with heavy psychological sins. To atone for his sins, he prayed for the blessing of his son Origami Tsuru at the shrine and supported the mother of the injured child on a blog. He tried to find the children involved, hoping that they would come forward and admit the mistakes of the year, even if they were punished for it, than to carry such a heavy burden to live their lives.
Our life is not a sprint, not a sprint, but a long run of continuous effort, a momentary setback, bumps and bumps can not hinder the height of life afterwards. Everyone will make mistakes, make mistakes and correct them, and there will be better achievements without psychological burdens.
Just like Chu Shijian was once China's tobacco king, but he was soon sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of political rights for life for economic problems.
He was released on medical parole at the age of 73 and had nothing. No one expected that at the age of 74, he would start a business again.
At the age of 85, he began to sell through e-commerce, and the oranges were of good quality and were often sold out. Chu Shijian became the "Orange King of China". His orange is also affectionately known as "Chu Orange".
05. Cover up mistakes and bear sins
According to the situation at that time, Hiromi Asai was able to obtain a lighter punishment or be exempt from punishment if he killed someone by mistake that year. Tadao Asami chose the most difficult path to take, which has a lot to do with his personality. If he is not blindly cowardly, he will not let his wife donate money and escape with his lover, which is his failed life all along. Always choose the wrong, always overwhelmed, so will use one mistake after another to cover up the first mistake.
The superimposed pain, remorse, and guilt not only ruined his life but also Asami's life. Even the most glorious achievements cannot illuminate the haze in the heart.