小説むすび | 著者 : BruceAllen

Spring Castle is the epic story of Japan's bloody Shimabara Rebellion, told through the eyes of the peasants and former samurai who rose up their oppressors with extraordinary bravery. Facing religious persecution and famine, 37,000 ordinary men, women and children led by a charismatic teenage boy occupied an abandoned castle, only to be ruthlessly slaughtered by the shogun's army on the uprising's final day. 〇日本の歴史上最大規模の一揆である島原・天草の乱を天草ゆかりの石牟礼道子が50年に及ぶ取材を経て描いた歴史小説 〇圧政下で信仰を守り自由と尊厳のために戦う人々と、近代兵器で彼らを鎮圧せざるを得なかった討伐軍双方の視点を繊細に描き出します 〇犠牲者へのレクイエムとして、人間の美徳を称え悪徳を暴く壮大な作品