"White Night Walk" is a novel created by the famous Japanese mystery novelist Keigo Higashino, and it is also his masterpiece. The novel was serialized in periodicals from January 1997 to January 1999, and the pamphlet was published in Japan in August 1999. It tells the crime story of a man and a woman who grew up together in darkness for nineteen years. "White Night Walk" is also one of Keigo Higashino's novels that has been adapted into film and television works.
Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka in 1958. In 1985, he made his debut with the prize-winning work "After School" at the 31st Edogawa Ranbu Award and became famous. There are more than 60 works in the past few decades, and almost won all the awards in Japan. More influential works include "After School", "Secrets", "Suspect X's Dedication", "Worry-Relief Grocery Store", "Fate", "Detective Galileo" and so on.
The famous Japanese mystery novelist Keigo Higashino
"White Night Walk" is caused by a murder. Two elementary school students were involved, Ryoji and Xuesui. In 1973, a male corpse was found in an abandoned building in Osaka. In the following 19 years, the suspect’s daughter Yukho and the victim’s son Ryuji Kirihara embarked on a completely different path of life, a society that was in the upper class, full of prosperity, One wanders at the bottom, sinking in the darkness. But the people around them died bizarrely one after another. After 19 years of arduous tracking, the police finally made the truth clear. The biggest wish of
heroes and heroines is to walk hand in hand in the sun, but this is a luxury that they can never achieve. They can only move forward in the dark night under each other's light. In order to survive, they have paid a price that cannot be repaid.
Xuesui and Ryoji, two people who seem to have never met before, are actually twisted together by fate. They are like two parallel lines, always moving forward in parallel but never cuddling each other. For them in the gutter, living is a necessity, while love is an unattainable luxury. Their sky can have no sun, but each other is the only light in each other's world. The
novel is based on the Japanese bubble economy period. The scene at the beginning of the novel was an abandoned building, which is reminiscent of the decline and depression of the Japanese economy at that time.
Due to the burst of the bubble economy, a large number of enterprises closed down and the unemployment rate surged. According to statistics from sociologists, nearly one-third of Japan's population during this period were unemployed, families were burdened with huge debts, and the economy fell from its peak to trough. Japanese spenders began to realize the importance of money. In order to survive and for the sake of "a sense of security", money has become the thing that overrides the most precious emotions between people such as family, friendship, love, human nature is lost in the pursuit of money, personalism, social innocence, etc. are popular . When the bubble economy was overwhelmed by people's breath, major natural disasters and social events such as the Great Hanshin Earthquake and sarin gas killing occurred in Japan. Japanese sociologists generally believe that this has fundamentally changed the values and world outlook of the Japanese people, especially the younger generation. The "Japanese security myth" has since been shattered, and the spiritual and moral crisis hidden under the social order has emerged. "Japanese society has produced a broader and deeper "trust crisis" that has a wider and deeper impact, and it quickly spread to all fields." The source of the love tragedy of Yukho and Ryoji is the distortion of human nature caused by the indifference of the family and the coldness of the society. Childhood misfortune allowed the seeds of "hate" to grow in the heart, producing "evil" flowers and spreading continuously, which became unstoppable. There is a sentence in the book
: There are two things in the world that you cannot look directly at, one is the sun and the other is the human heart. This is a book that cuts people's hearts and writes them into a river of despair in order to survive. In this book, you can see the complexity of human nature. In fact, when people are making decisions, they often struggle with their inner good and evil. It depends on which one has the upper hand in the end and which one becomes dominant. "White Night Walk" uses such a tragic story to tell us that human nature is evil, but it can be constantly improved and returned to peace. The
novel perfectly combines the hopeless but persistent bleak love with persistent and meticulous and calm reasoning, and is regarded as the uncrowned king of his works by many "Dongfans".
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