The Track of Sin
Hideo OkudaPeople's Literature Publishing House2022
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- Okuda Hideo Collection
- ISBN
- 9787020169511
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Featured Fiction Mystery and Suspense Social Observation经济Ensemble CastCrime FictionSocial MysteryJapanese LiteratureShowa TokyoSummary
In the summer of 1963, one year before the Tokyo Olympics, Japan was immersed in the excitement of rapid economic growth: the shinkansen had opened, expressways and subways were extending, old neighborhoods were being torn down and rebuilt as venues and hotels, and televisions and telephones were entering ordinary homes. Beneath this ferment, Uno Kanji, a young man from Hokkaido with nothing to his name, crossed the sea in a small boat from Rebun Island and made his way to Tokyo, where he became entangled in a series of cases—a watch merchant's robbery, the kidnapping of a tofu shop boy, the murder of a dancer—passing through a dangerous life of loneliness, bewilderment, idleness, and a resolve to live toward death in the space of just three months. On another track, Ochiai Masao, a university-educated detective from an ordinary background who changed his fate through study, takes part in the nationally watched investigation, distinguishing himself repeatedly as more than a hundred detectives comb the pleasure quarters, resort hotels, passenger railways, and sea ferries, until he finally confronts the elusive suspect face to face. Okuda Hideo reveals the criminal's identity to readers shortly after the opening, letting police and criminal advance in parallel on either side of an information barrier; through an ensemble approach he brings in the upper ranks of the Metropolitan Police Department, the media, the yakuza, day laborers, immigrants, and leftists, presenting the dramatic transformations and subtle conflicts among all strata of Japanese society on the eve of the Olympics, and tracing those hard-to-classify tracks on the reverse side of a glittering era. This work was translated into Chinese by Tan Yuanyuan and included in the "Okuda Hideo Collection."Editor's review
奥田英朗以《变态怪医Dr.伊良部》系列等作品为人熟知，也长期书写普通人在时代中的失重感。《罪辙》把舞台搬回昭和三十八年，用一桩桩真实案件为骨架，搭起奥运前夕的东京全景：工地、风俗街、轮渡、酒店、报社、警署，每个场域都有自己的一套规矩与生存术。作者不玩“谁是凶手”的把戏，犯罪者在开头就现身，悬念让位于追问——一个人为什么会被时代抛下？被抛下的人又会做出什么？ 本书日文版出版后入选2019年“《周刊文春》十大推理”、2020年“这本推理小说好想读！”与“这本推理小说了不起！”等榜单，被誉为犯罪推理的高峰之作。中文版由谭媛媛翻译，五百余页的体量把群像铺得足够宽，读起来却始终有推进力：一边是自小地方闯入大都市、不断沉向底层的宽治，一边是审时度势、紧跟时代节奏往上走的刑警落合。两条线冷热对照，黑与白的界限却始终模糊。喜欢《奥林匹克的赎金》或偏爱社会派长篇的读者，不妨从这本开始，看一部恢宏的“昭和东京风物诗”如何同时成为一份关于阶层与机会的证词。Who it's for
A good fit for
- 喜欢社会派推理、看重时代背景与社会切面的读者
- 对1960年代日本、东京奥运会前后社会史感兴趣的读者
- 能接受五六百页长篇群像、不执着于解谜反转的读者
- 读过《奥林匹克的赎金》《无理时代》想继续读奥田英朗的读者
Not a good fit for
- 只想读本格解谜、追求连续反转和“猜凶手”快感的读者
- 偏好轻松短篇、难以接受大量配角与慢热铺陈的读者
- 对犯罪题材中暴力、性产业描写较敏感的读者
Reading tips
- 先了解1964年东京奥运会与1963年小吉展绑架案的背景，再读会更顺。
- 把两条主线当作对照阅读：留意宽治的每一次“下沉”与落合的每一次“上行”。
- 人名与地名较多，可随手记下主要人物关系，中段阅读会更轻松。
- 若只想试读，可先读完前三章确立叙事节奏，再决定是否继续。
About the publisher
People's Literature Publishing House China · Founded in 1951People's Literature Publishing House publishes across classical literature, foreign literature, documentary writing and folk literature, with 492 titles in its catalogue. Representative books range from the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms to Lao She's Teahouse and Longxu Ditch in the Selected Works of Lao She, as well as translated foreign literature such as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Dante's Divine Comedy and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, alongside documentary and fictional works including Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Its authors include Chinese writers such as Lao She, translators such as Shen Emeri and Li Wenjun, and foreign authors such as James Wood. Overall, the house has a strong record in editing classic works and translating foreign literature, with a publishing character that bridges Chinese and foreign writing and values textual quality.
FAQ
《罪辙》是奥田英朗的哪一本原作的引进版？
是日本原版《罪の轍》（2019年出版）的简体中文版，由谭媛媛翻译，人民文学出版社·99读书人于2022年1月推出，收入“奥田英朗作品集”。这本书是“猜凶手”的推理小说吗？
不是。奥田英朗在故事开始不久就交代了罪犯身份，重点在于警察与罪犯两条平行视角的推进，以及1960年代日本社会各阶层的群像，属于社会派推理。故事有真实案件原型吗？
有。作品以1964年东京奥运会前夕为背景，并参考了1963年日本“小吉展绑架案”等当时的真实事件，但情节经过文学化处理。和《奥林匹克的赎金》是什么关系？
两书都取材于东京奥运会前后的日本社会：《奥林匹克的赎金》更早出版，聚焦奥运恐吓爆炸事件；《罪辙》则是2019年出版的新长篇，视野更偏向奥运前一年的社会群像。译者谭媛媛还译过什么？
谭媛媛长期从事日文小说翻译，译有绫辻行人《替身2001》等作品，也参与99读书人引进的日本类型小说项目。This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Hideo Okuda AuthorHideo Okuda is a Japanese author whose six works are carried by this Chinese-language book site. Because public information on his birth date, birthplace, and education is limited, this profile sketches his writing mainly through his works. The titles held here include Unreasonable Times, Tracks of Sin, and the psychiatric stories The Swimming Pool, Air Swing, and Pot Man, as well as Where Love Stays (a ten-volume set). Classified under literature, foreign literature, quality fiction, mystery and suspense, documentary writing, and essays, these works show a range that crosses fictional narrative and nonfictional observation. The psychiatric stories use a clinic setting and a light touch to address psychological and everyday troubles, while Unreasonable Times and Tracks of Sin turn toward social reality and crime with a sterner tone. This shift between humor and gravity gives Okuda's work a distinct recognizable quality.