Cup Ruzu (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In that town, there are several whispers of gossip about men and women. A couple in a cold relationship, a man who ran away in the night, a victim of a certain incident and his widow, a man who works in a department store and an actress, a prostitute wearing gloves, a painter in the arcade, a hostess with a crowd of men... the characters in the gossip are all diverse. And in that town lived a "novelist. Rumors are always bigger than facts. But nothing is more intriguing to the "Novelist. The narrator, "I," searches for the truth of the rumors and makes the story far more interesting than the facts. This is a collection of stories by one of the most skilled novelists in the literary world, from the perspective of a local "novelist. Seven stories in all.

その街では、男と女の噂話がいくつもささやかれている。冷えきった仲の夫婦、夜逃げをした男、ある事件の被害者と未亡人、百貨店勤務の男と女優、手袋をつけた娼婦、アーケード街の絵かき、男たちが群がったホステス…噂話の登場人物はどれも多彩だ。そしてその街にはひとりの「小説家」が暮らしていた―。噂はいつも事実よりひと回り大きい。ただ「小説家」の興味をこれほどひくものもない。語り手の「私」は噂の真相を探りつつ、事実よりはるかに面白い物語に仕立てあげてゆく。文壇屈指の小説巧者が、街の「小説家」の視点を借りて描いた作品集。全七篇を所収。