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双葉社ジュニア文庫 ノベライズ この世界の片隅に
すずは広島の江波で生まれた絵が得意な少女。昭和19年、18歳で呉に嫁いだすずは、戦争が世の中の空気を変えていく中、ひとりの主婦として前を向いて生きていく。だが、戦争は進み、呉はたびたび空襲に見舞われる。そして昭和20年の夏がやってきた――。数々の漫画賞を受賞した原作コミック、待望の劇場アニメ化。戦時下の広島・呉を生きるすずの日常と軌跡を描く珠玉の物語。ノベライズ・ジュニア文庫版。©こうの史代・双葉社／「この世界の片隅に」製作委員会
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 22, 2016
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October 20, 2024
Part of my JLPT N3 reading challenge 2024 - book 18
I'm quite proud to have finished this one. It has been the hardest of the books Ive read this year and its taken me the longest to finish; having started and finished several others as I slowly read this as well.
Why? Mainly because of the dialect, it is in Hiroshima dialect which meant, in addition to the usual dictionary translations of vocabulary, I often had to run sentences theough ChatGPT to parse the dialect into regular Japanese. Though I did pick up some of the more common expressions.
The era it is set in also meant that there were time specific concepts and phrases, in particular as the war becomes a part of the book terms like 'air raid shelter' which are very speciifc to this setying start to appear.
Which brings me to the next point, I didnt actually know what the book was about when I started it - I'm reading anything that I can that seems an appropriate level - so it was only slowly that it was going to deal with the war and the bomb in Hiroshima dawned on me.
It is written with a lot of humour and compssion, I believe aimed at younger readers, but it does still have some emotionally tough parts to read.
It does feel like an achievement to have read this in Japanese and think I will continue into next year with my 'only reading books in Japanese' experiment. It has been quite rewarding this year.
I'm quite proud to have finished this one. It has been the hardest of the books Ive read this year and its taken me the longest to finish; having started and finished several others as I slowly read this as well.
Why? Mainly because of the dialect, it is in Hiroshima dialect which meant, in addition to the usual dictionary translations of vocabulary, I often had to run sentences theough ChatGPT to parse the dialect into regular Japanese. Though I did pick up some of the more common expressions.
The era it is set in also meant that there were time specific concepts and phrases, in particular as the war becomes a part of the book terms like 'air raid shelter' which are very speciifc to this setying start to appear.
Which brings me to the next point, I didnt actually know what the book was about when I started it - I'm reading anything that I can that seems an appropriate level - so it was only slowly that it was going to deal with the war and the bomb in Hiroshima dawned on me.
It is written with a lot of humour and compssion, I believe aimed at younger readers, but it does still have some emotionally tough parts to read.
It does feel like an achievement to have read this in Japanese and think I will continue into next year with my 'only reading books in Japanese' experiment. It has been quite rewarding this year.
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