Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya

Author:Saiichi Maruya [Maruya, Saiichi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paladin
Published: 1989-04-13T17:00:00+00:00

Sometime during that day Granny wrote a long letter to the prison warden stating the date on which she wished to pay her visit and giving the names of the people she wanted to meet; and the next day with Tsuru’s help she prepared enough inari zushi to fill the two bottom tiers of the box and set off for the Nonomiya house. Shin’ichi still had his left arm in a sling, but although he’d only just finished his lunch he had a wonderfully healthy appetite, and he said her inari zushi tasted quite different from anybody else’s. Despite all this praise, however, she returned home in a very despondent mood, and while they were all watching television after dinner she started crying. When I got home around ten o’clock she brought her troubles to me and started sniveling again. The cause of this grief was that her daughter had scolded her for all the bad things she’d said about the police to Shin’ichi. As a mother no doubt she’d been worried her son might be stirred to more mischief by such inflammatory remarks, but from Granny’s point of view it was as if her own daughter were supporting the villains who’d assaulted her grandson, or indeed as if she were exculpating the people who were Granny’s own enemies.

“She’s so heartless. Probably doesn’t love even her own child,” she sobbed.

It also seemed that my mother-in-law had become very worked up during the discussion, which resulted in her going so far as to bring up the unrelated subject of all the troubles she’d been obliged to go through during those thirteen years, and how much insult and reprobation the professor had endured. This was made worse by the fact that Shin’ichi, who naturally knew about his grandmother’s past, put forward a new view of the matter by saying that he, on the contrary, set a high valuation on the crime as a rebellious act directed at the establishment, which upset his mother even more. The one bright spot in this day of gloom was that the professor wasn’t home, being occupied with student disturbances at his own university, and thus the discussion was saved from plumbing further depths of obscurity.

Yukari had become quite fed up listening to all the various grumblings by the time I reached home, and Tsuru had gone off immediately to her own room once she’d passed Granny over to me. Unfortunately I was unable to say much to the point in my clumsy efforts to console her, because I was worried I might say something that looked as if I were befriending the police, and also because the fact is, of course, that being a civil servant is in many ways remarkably close to being a policeman. So I kept quiet mostly, eating three of the remaining inari zushi, although I ought to have had only two because they can be very fattening. They were really very good, though, the perfect food for summer with just the right amount of seasoning, and I couldn’t stop.

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