内容简介：

　　伸子生在富裕家庭，受高等教育又有才华。为了逃脱原生家庭令人窒息的精神压力，她早早结婚却以失败告终，随后结识了创作事业上的同好素子，二人开始了女作家的同居生活。尽管离婚后过上了经济独立的自在日子，但伸子发现自己的目的远不止于此。她一直被“作为一个人应该为了什么而活着”的问题所困扰，而围绕在她身边的多位女性，母亲、女性密友素子等，虽同为女人，生活观却全然不同，这让生性渴望诚实生活的伸子陷入纠结不安。想要真正开拓新生活，伸子发现要做出的选择层出不穷，她的欲望和感情也在暴风雨般的时代上下浮沉……

　　作为《逃走的伸子》的续篇，《小径分岔的庭院》也是宫本百合子自传色彩浓厚的一部作品。1924年，在夏目漱石女徒弟野上弥生子的介绍下，百合子与俄罗斯文学翻译家汤浅芳子相识，二人一见如故，成为挚友。本书即百合子以自己与芳子为原型的小说，内容不仅是家庭纠纷、情感纠葛的一系列事件的延续，更多地讲述了个人与社会、国家机器的摩擦。而在当时日本战乱和人权剥夺的社会境况下，书中探讨的女性主义与共产主义议题是难见天日的。

　　作者简介······

　　宫本百合子（1899—1951），出生于东京，日本近代文学重要女作家，无产阶级文学的代表人物。

　　父亲是日本知名建筑师中条精一郎，母亲是明治时代启蒙思想家西村茂树之女。12岁便模仿《源氏物语》写古典长篇小说，17岁进入日本女子大学英文科，同年发表以穷苦人民生活为题材的处女作《贫穷的人们》，从此正式步入文坛，被誉为“天才少女”。

　　其代表作《逃走的伸子》是以仅维持了5年的婚姻为背景创作的自传性私小说，与后续的《小径分岔的庭院》《路标》组成“人生三部曲”流传后世。宫本百合子“人生三部曲”不仅是一位女作家波澜壮阔的成长史，更生动展现了亚洲近代女性自我解放意识的蜕变。

Brief introduction of contents:

Nobuko was born into a wealthy family, highly educated and talented. In order to escape the suffocating mental pressure of the native family, she got married early but ended in failure, and then met the same good son on the creative career, two people began the cohabitation life of a female writer. Despite a comfortable life of financial independence after her divorce, Nobuko found herself aiming for more than that. She has been "as a person should live for what to live" problem, and around her a number of women, mother, female close friend Suzi, etc., although the same woman, life view is completely different, which makes the natural desire for honest life extension into entanglement. uneasy. Wanting to truly open up a new life, Nobuko finds herself with endless choices to make, and her desires and feelings ebb and flow in stormy times...

As the continuation of "Escape Nobuko", "The Courtyard Where the Path diverts" is also a work with strong autobiographical color of Miyamoto Yuriko. In 1924, through the introduction of Natsume Soseki's female apprentice Yayoko Nogami, Yuriko met the Russian literary translator Yoshiko Yuasa, and the two became close friends. This book is a novel based on Yuriko and Yoshiko, the content is not only the continuation of a series of events of family disputes and emotional entanglement, but also tells more about the friction between individuals and society and the state machine. In the social situation of war and deprivation of human rights in Japan at that time, the feminist and communist issues discussed in the book were difficult to see the light of day.

About the author

Yuriko Miyamoto (1899-1951), born in Tokyo, was an important female writer in modern Japanese literature and a representative figure of proletarian literature.

His father was Seiichiro Nakajo, a famous Japanese architect, and his mother was the daughter of Shigeki Nishimura, an enlightened thinker of the Meiji era. At the age of 12, she imitated "The Tale of Genji" to write a classical novel. At the age of 17, she entered the English department of Nippon Women's University. In the same year, she published her debut novel "The Poor People", which was about the life of poor people.

His representative work "Escape Shinko" is an autobiographical private novel created under the background of a marriage that lasted only five years, and the subsequent "Courtyard where the Path diverts" and "Road Sign" constitute a "life trilogy" to pass down to future generations. Yuriko Miyamoto's "Life Trilogy" is not only a magnificent growth history of a female writer, but also a vivid demonstration of the transformation of modern Asian women's self-liberation consciousness.