Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all – the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her respons...
Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all – the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her response? An indecent proposal…
Written by the first disabled author to win Japan’s most prestigious literary award and acclaimed instantly as one of the most important Japanese novels of the twenty-first century, Hunchback is an extraordinary, thrilling glimpse into the desire and darkness of a woman placed at humanity’s edge.
Saou Ichikawa (1979-) graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel Hunchback won the 128th Bungakukai Prize for New Writers and the 169th Akutagawa Prize. She is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's premier literary award. She has congenital myopathy, and uses a ventilator and an elect...
Saou Ichikawa (1979-) graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel Hunchback won the 128th Bungakukai Prize for New Writers and the 169th Akutagawa Prize. She is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's premier literary award. She has congenital myopathy, and uses a ventilator and an electric wheelchair
“I hated things that endure without breaking, that accrued value through aging. The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed… It wasn’t collapsing to death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live… When ...“I hated things that endure without breaking, that accrued value through aging. The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed… It wasn’t collapsing to death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live… When I read a book my spine bends, crushing my lung, puncturing a hole in my throat; when I walk I bang my head— to live, my body breaks.”(展开)
0 有用 fugue 2025-05-30 07:30:50 美国
bold, meta, beautiful imagination
0 有用 千叶敦子 2025-10-19 13:01:08 江苏
日语0能力者体验:英译本比中译本翻得更易读。神奇。
1 有用 hliu13 2025-05-26 13:19:11 美国
“I hated things that endure without breaking, that accrued value through aging. The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed… It wasn’t collapsing to death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live… When ... “I hated things that endure without breaking, that accrued value through aging. The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed… It wasn’t collapsing to death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live… When I read a book my spine bends, crushing my lung, puncturing a hole in my throat; when I walk I bang my head— to live, my body breaks.” (展开)
0 有用 希培 2025-10-18 22:21:05 美国
以尼采的哲学为基底的文学至今还能玩出什么花来…. 我感觉作者想讲的东西很多,身体政治,弱者道德,但没有给我太惊艳的地方,但有不少能共鸣的地方。
3 有用 娜娜金 2025-03-19 15:50:48 北京
用英文版重读一遍情节,如今在我眼里它俨然是被情色外壳包裹着的恐怖故事。这里没有爱、没有关怀,只有钱以及主人公丑陋卑贱的身体。我读到了作者本人对这个世界的深刻憎恨,以及浩瀚而死不瞑目的自尊与生命力。