"Who can sleep peacefully this night": Life is the biggest bet

Miyuki Miyabe is a national writer in Japan. She has a wide range of writing and has won numerous awards. She not only writes mystery novels, but also period novels and fantasy novels. For the time being, I have only read her mystery novels. The most famous one is probably "Copycat Crime" ”, what a masterpiece.

What I want to introduce today is the relatively light mystery novel "Who Can Sleep Well This Night".

This is a mystery novel without murder.

Generally speaking, murder happens in mystery novels, but this story has nothing to do with murder at all.

But it's a really interesting story.

The family of three originally lived an ordinary life. Although the husband was having an affair outside, the wife always pretended not to know. Everything was calm until that day when a clerk from a law firm came and told the wife that she had saved a man twenty years ago. Someone gave her an inheritance of 500 million yuan, and then her family caused an uproar...

We all buy Mark Six lottery tickets in order to get a lot of money from the sky. However, this family was not happy at all when they received a huge sum of money from the sky. The media was frantically pursuing interviews, and there were endless threatening phone calls. The most terrible thing was that the husband began to question the relationship between his wife and the legatee, and even doubted his son's life experience...

In order to find out his own life experience, the thirteen-year-old son formed a "detective team" with his friends and desperately investigated the past of his parents. Can he believe his mother's words that he is indeed his father's son? Or maybe she doesn't even know whose son he is?

The development of the novel is completely beyond imagination, and the seemingly insignificant fragments in the middle are the key to solving the case. The most important thing is that the novel is written in a light and funny way, probably because it is written from the son's perspective, turning a story that could have been heavy into a heartwarming one.

Money is a touchstone to test human nature.

A windfall from the sky has everyone involved in the whirlpool, but I still often think about the windfall falling from the sky. However, if getting wealth breaks the relationship between my family and puts me into trouble, I would rather sleep peacefully at night.

"Who can sleep peacefully this night?" Write a bet.

Have you ever thought about betting your life? If you win, you can gain the whole world; if you lose, you may lose your entire life. Are you mentally prepared to bet on this store? If you don't place a bet, you will never know whether you will win or lose, or what you will win. However, if you don’t place a bet, you will never lose the chips in your hand.

If you have never read Miyuki Miyabe’s novels, you might as well start with this one.

Book title: "Who can sleep peacefully this night"

Author: Miyuki Miyabe

Translation: Liu Zijun

Published by: Dubu Culture

 After reading more than ten editions of the novel, I couldn't help but think that it was absolutely impossible for me to write such a sentence. Alas, the feeling of being defeated again. Okay, just enjoy reading the master's book and don't drag yourself into it.

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