A Home with Nowhere to Escape
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Summary
Many people have experienced or heard of being tormented by family members. Faced with a spouse's emotional abuse and the controlling words and actions of parents and siblings, have you ever thought, "I might as well just..."? In fact, half of all homicides in Japan occur within families. Troubles with family members are hard to confide in others, and pent-up emotions can erupt at any moment. The seemingly happier a family looks, the more problems it often has. Excessive discipline of children, marriages in name only, quarrels between a husband and his mother, killings between siblings driven by jealousy, and so on—how exactly do family relationships break down bit by bit? This book uncovers more than ten crimes that occurred within Japanese families, exposing hidden family crises in the hope of helping more people escape the mire of intimate relationships.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in East Asian family sociology and psychology
- Literary readers who appreciate nuanced portrayals of characters' inner worlds and family relationships
- Urban young people reflecting on intergenerational relationships and the boundaries of personal life
- Readers seeking to see their own formative experiences reflected in literature
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking for fast-paced, plot-driven entertainment fiction
- Readers who hold an entirely optimistic view of family and prefer not to engage with heavy themes
Reading tips
- Read it in a quiet setting so you can fully absorb the nuances of the text and its emotional layers.
- As you read, reflect on your own understanding of "family" and "self," but don't rush to match the story to your own life.
- Pay attention to what the secondary characters say and do; they often carry the unspoken pressures of the social background and the family system.
About the publisher
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 前言
- 第一章 千叶县四年级小学生被虐致死案
- 深爱着心爱的家人
- 被案件打破的日常
- 加害者家族的孩子们是第二受害者
- 真假难辨的互联网信息
- 过度依赖父母的夫妻
- 与心爱在一起的生活
- 作为受害者遗属的悔恨、作为加害者家属的责任
- 在法庭上公开的残忍虐待
- 没想到竟然做出如此残忍的行为……
- 被告妻子的证词
- 无法依赖的大人们
- 心爱的战斗
- 被告坚持否认虐待的理由
- 在庭审中没有被深入挖掘的犯罪动机
- 失落一代的怨念
- 双方父母的对立
- 与妻子的相互依赖
- 与父母之间的经济差距导致的加害行为
- 加害者们的结局
- 难以发现的加害行为
- 为了避免惨剧再次发生应该做的事
- 第二章 岩手县孕妇被杀抛尸案
- 坚信凶手无辜的家人
- 即便如此我的儿子也没有犯罪
- 隐藏在夫妻关系背后的秘密
- 大小姐与用人
- 因为疾病而失去容身之地
- 伪装夫妻关系的理由
- 被连虫子都不敢打死的男人绞杀
- 为了孩子化身恶鬼
- 想到家人才恢复理智
- 家人得知的真相
- “有车和家庭才是男人”的价值观
- 第三章 宫崎家族三人被害案
- 受到当地保护的加害者家族
- 人们的支持是生存下来的动力
- 对错误教育方式的悔恨
- 对加害者的支援
- 导致儿子走上犯罪道路的原因
- 逃避丈母娘的家庭暴力
- 死刑是正确的选择吗？
- 第四章 被洗脑的家族
- 第三者介入导致家族成员关系破裂
- 被撕裂的家族
- 暴力的开始
- 受害者与加害者的不同道路
- 家族全员都是嫌疑人
- 家族的弱点
- 第五章 婴儿遗弃案的背后
- 教养良好的女儿为什么会做出这种事
- 害怕被父母发现
- 家庭中的性教育
- 第六章 七十六岁前高官刺死儿子引发的思考
- 父母应该杀掉危害社会的子女吗？
- 对成为加害者家属的恐惧
- 第七章 残留下来的家族的人生
- 哥哥杀害了父亲
- 哥哥的死亡与母亲的护理
- 支援的极限
- 如何防止社会的孤立
- 第八章 兄弟间杀人
- 长子杀害次子
- 与大哥疏远的关系
- 孤独的青春期
- 来自哥哥的警告
- 事件另有真相
- 逃离哥哥后开始的崭新人生
- 被赶出东京
- 名为教育的光
- 与少年A的相遇
- 儿子的自杀
- 被家族夺走的人生
- 名为金钱的麻醉剂
- 第九章 家人为什么自相残杀
- 近亲憎恶与正常化偏见
- 看不见的孤立
- 孩子犯罪意味着社会性死亡
- 第十章 家族与社会的责任
- 过度强调“家族责任论”的日本
- 社会扭曲价值观的影响
- 男尊女卑的弊端
- 加害者家族的孩子的未来
- 第十一章 防止家族间杀人
- 抗风险能力低的家族的脆弱性
- 家族的多样性是预防案件发生的关键
- 重新构筑联系
- 为什么要对案件进行查证
- 后记
- 作者简介
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About the author
Abe Kyoko is a Japanese author of documentary literature carried by this Chinese-language book site. Public information about her is limited, and her biography and nationality have not yet been confirmed; the site currently holds two of her works. Judging from Nowhere to Run Home and Japanese Case Documentary: A Pyramid Work (3 volumes), her writing centers on difficulties within the family and on social cases in Japan. She is adept at tracing the course of events in a documentary style and presenting how ordinary people cope in closed environments and sudden cases. Her works are often classified as documentary literature and social fiction, reflecting her attention to real-world issues and her sustained observation of family relationships, social pressure, and the complexities of human nature. For Chinese readers, her books offer a window into Japanese social-case and family-themed nonfiction.
Zhu Yuewei is a Chinese author with a fairly diverse range of subjects; public information about the author is limited, and details such as dates of birth and death, nationality and educational background are not clearly documented. Sixteen of the author's works are held in the collection, spanning documentary literature, social fiction, inspirational and personal-growth writing, management, finance and economics, and applied psychology. Among them, Nowhere to Escape Home and Japanese Case Reportage: A Pyramid Work (3 volumes) lean toward true-crime and social-issue writing; Instant Memory Techniques, Things Only Well-Bred People Know and The Grown-up Who Never Grows Up focus on personal growth and psychological adjustment; while Analysis and Decision-Making and Game Theory address methods of thinking and management practice. These works suggest an author skilled at turning specialist topics into accessible writing for general readers, balancing information with readability and choosing subjects close to real life, from social observation to self-improvement and rational thinking.
