読了後の一言「こうきましたか、東野さん!」でした。様々な人間模様の中、それぞれの謎が読み進むと同時に解き明かされ、繋がっていく展開は確かにミステリ―。それはまるでパズルピースが正しい位置に来た時、ピタッと隣のピースとはまり合うような感じでした。まるで磁石同士がくっつきあうような感覚を覚えゾクッとしました。
それ以上にこの話で一貫して描かれていることは、「人との縁と繋がり」だと私は感じました。それぞれの登場人物が人生の悩みごとを抱える中「人との縁を経て、誰と繋がりたいのか、誰との繋がりを修復したいのか、誰と繋がるのを止めるのか、そして何をしたいのか」を問われる時、私も問われている感覚になりました。改めて自分のこれまでの人生での人との繋がりと行動をみつめ、これからの人との繋がりと行動に思考を巡らせるきっかけとなったと思います。
この本一冊がまるで曼荼羅を描いているかのような感じです。最後まで読み終わった今、私もこの本からある答えをもらった気がしています。
⁂ネタバレしないように詳細を書くことは控えましたので、わかりにくいところはご了承ください。
(*Some of my English should not be translated literally. I would be glad if it could be helpful for people to understand the context of my Japanese)
When I finished reading the last page of this book, I unintentionally said to myself, "You wrote this in that way, Keigo Higashino. Awesome!". The relationships among various human dramas were gradually revealing themselves while I was reading the book. It is something like a piece of the puzzle fits to each other, which feels like the magnets attach together.
I think 'the connection between people’ would be a main theme throughout the story. While each of the characters in the story is dealing with a problem, the character is consistently tested by making decision on each matter to me; I think that every time they face the relationship with someone, they are asked ‘who you want to connect with’, ‘who you want to fix the relationship with’, ‘who you want to stop the relationship with’ and ‘what you want to choose’. It felt like I was also asked every time. I reflected on myself while reading the book, and I think that meeting the book was the turning point of my life.
That is like drawing a mandala in the story.
I finished reading, and it feels like I got the answer from the Namiya general store, too.
⁂I tried a spoiler-free so there would be some ambiguous expressions in my sentences.