Aru Otoko

Novel·ある男
Aru Otoko
2021/09/01
Characters168,454
Word count73,097
Unique words
9,272
Unique kanji
1,999
Avg. sentence28.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue22.3%
Duration
12 h
Rating
60 %

愛したはずの夫は、まったくの別人であった――。 「マチネの終わりに」の平野啓一郎による、傑作長編。 弁護士の城戸は、かつての依頼者である里枝から、「ある男」についての奇妙な相談を受ける。 宮崎に住んでいる里枝には、2歳の次男を脳腫瘍で失って、夫と別れた過去があった。長男を引き取って14年ぶりに故郷に戻ったあと、「大祐」と再婚して、新しく生まれた女の子と4人で幸せな家庭を築いていた。 ところがある日突然、「大祐」は、事故で命を落とす。悲しみにうちひしがれた一家に、「大祐」が全くの別人だという衝撃の事実がもたらされる……。 愛にとって過去とは何か? 幼少期に深い傷を負っても、人は愛にたどりつけるのか? 「ある男」を探るうちに、過去を変えて生きる男たちの姿が浮かびあがる。

Japanese study overview

Aru Otoko is a Japanese novel of 168,454 characters, with 9,272 unique words and 1,999 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,272 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

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