★★★★☆ こういう人いるよね、という感じの普通の人たちの葛藤。真面目過ぎて不器用で滑稽な人たちのストーリーたち。ちゃんと前作から読むべきだったのかも。
★★★★☆ It's a collection of short stories of regular people in Japan, you know one or two of these people. So diligent, awkward and unintentionally funny. I should have read the previous book in the series though
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何様
朝井リョウ 2012
Ryo Asai
416ページ
2025年3月 読了
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初の朝井リョウ。
貰い物なのでなにも知らずだったけど、6つの物語の短編集。
前作の何者というのがあるようなので順番は間違えたのかも。
今時の就職についてがメインで、就職したばかりだったり、大学生だったり、就職セミナーの講師だったり。最初のは高校最後のストーリーだけど、ここも大きな変化のなかのできごと、という共通点。
こういう人、いるよね、という感じの普通の人たちの葛藤。
最初の高校生のラブストーリーは新鮮だった。二つ目のゆらゆら揺れまくってる、姉の代わりのアパートシェアをする人を探す女の子には呆れるけど、いる、こういう人。
真面目すぎて不器用で滑稽な人たちのストーリー。
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著:朝井リョウ
出版社:新潮社
ISBN:9784101269320
出版社:新潮社
判型:文庫
ページ数:416ページ







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★★★★☆ First time reading Ryo Asai, though he’s very popular in Japan. It’s a collection of short stories of regular people in Japan, you know one or two of these people. So diligent, awkward and unintentionally funny. I should have read the previous book in the series though
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Ryo Asai, 2012
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My first time reading Ryo Asai.
6 short stories, but who know there was a book before this in the series, called Nanimono.
Both titles meaning something along the line with "who do you think you are"
It's mainly about job hunting, and in Japan they still mass recruit college students in their last year, so that if they successfully graduate, they can work directly from April of the year (if you don't get expected grades, they can cancel their offer)
In winter, you see all the 21, 22 year olds going around Japanese cities in their "recruitment suits" with the same hairstyles, same bags, same nervous faces, memorising the perfect answers to what they know their recruiters will ask.
Anyway so the protagonists are at the verge of new challenges; just got recruited, new start at college, instructor of recruitment.
Their struggles are so normal, they are awkward, but aren't we all a bit awkward?
You want to do thing correctly but end up unintentionally funny, loveable ordinary people.
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