2007年12月4日火曜日

Favorite Novel ③

Today I'll introduce one of my favorite novels: "失踪HOLIDAY(the Disappearence Holiday)" written by Otsuichi. I'm so sorry to introduce only his novels, but I like his novel very much. This novel contains two stories.

"幸せは子猫のかたち(The shape of happiness is like a kitten)"

This story is about a boy who is not good at communicating with others and retires into himself and a girl who is alredy dead and invisible to people.
The boy moves to a new house and starts his campus life. However, he has some mysterious experiences in his new house; Things are moved to place different from where he put, and TV channel is changed without notice. He finds a room seemed to have been used by a girl, and he realise that there is the girls ghost. However, she never tries to scare and harm him. She just live there as if she still be alive. Then they start to live in the house together, but one day, he realzes an important truth.

"失踪HOLIDAY(the Disappearence Holday)"

This story is about a girl, Nao. She lives in a very big house with servants because his father is a prsident of big company and rich. However, she is not his true daughter. Her father got married to her real mother. So Nao is her child by her former marriage. However, Nao did not care about that until her mother died. After her death, she suddely felt fear fo being kiched out by his father because she is not his real child. After sevral years, he got married to other woman, Kyoko. Nao can not get along with and often quarrel with her. One day, she gets angry at her father because he supported Kyoko. So she runs away from her house, but actually, she just hides herself in a house for survants by threatening one of survants, Kuniko. After some days, she thinks that her father may be worried about her and goes back to her home. However, she sees her family looks happy even though they get lost Nao. She is so sad and decides to pretend to be kidnapped by sending a letter to her familly and she keeps hiding hersel in a Kuniko's room. And the happening caused by just a hoax becomes a big incident latter.


If you are interested in this novel after reading these outlines, please try it. Thank you!!

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