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滅びの園

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わたしの絶望は、誰かの希望。

ある日、上空に現れた異次元の存在、<未知なるもの>。
それに呼応して、白く有害な不定形生物<プーニー>が出現、無尽蔵に増殖して地球を呑み込もうとする。
少女、相川聖子は、着実に滅亡へと近づく世界を見つめながら、特異体質を活かして人命救助を続けていた。
だが、最大規模の危機に直面し、人々を救うため、最後の賭けに出ることを決意する。
世界の終わりを巡り、いくつもの思いが交錯する。壮大で美しい幻想群像劇。

368 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 2021

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Kōtarō Tsunekawa

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* 恒川 光太郎 (Japanese)

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April 23, 2024
An overworked salaryman stepped off at a wrong train station by accident and soon found himself in a town that is as charming as a picture book with all of his memory gone. Soon after he settled down in that town, he started receiving letters from people claimed to be his parents, his wife and even the prime minister of Japan begging him to come back. At the same time, mysterious beings that look like white clumps started showing up on Earth. Living beings may die when come into contact with them or turn into them if they somehow ingest the white clumps, no matter how little the amount. Many species became extinct. Human population dropped to a tiny fraction of prior level. Scientists believe that the salaryman is the linchpin to the crisis on Earth.

I like the way this book depicts the huge number of people and countries involved in tackling the crisis, each contribute to the cause in their own various way, and these people may not even know each other, unlike most LN or manga where crises are resolved by a small group of people or even chiefly by the MC. So the crisis management here is a long and torturous path, with a lot of setbacks along the way, which makes it refreshingly realistic. Also, reading this book makes me question myself whether I would give up a perfect life and my own life to save a place and people that I have no memory of.
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August 6, 2020
好久沒讀中文書了。這本是恒川光太郎久違的中文翻譯小說,其實要說恒川光太郎是我喜歡的作家,有點微妙,但我的確還滿喜歡他筆下的故事。

這次的滅絕之園應該算是輕科幻?一開始描述名為鈴木的普通上班族從電車下車之後,發現自己到了沒聽過的站名,也找不到回去東京的方法,本來打算慢慢探索回家的路的鈴木,隨著時間記憶漸漸變得模糊,開始在這個如同天堂般——食物好吃、毫無爭鬥、賺錢容易的世界落地深根。

但沒想到故事並不是一個厭世上班族的妄想。鈴木開始收到來自地球的信,除了自己的父母還有妻子,接著開始收到政府來信,信上說明地球目前遭受普尼,一種白色宛如麻糬般,明明不是一般認知下的生物,卻會移動會增加,甚至生物吃了之後,還會普尼化(變成普尼死去)。而人類如果對普尼沒有足夠抗性,光是處在有普尼的環境、甚至不小心摸到,都有可能猝死。

同時地球天空中也可以觀察到某種未知體,宛如水母般包覆著地球,它看在不同人眼中會是不同的樣子,普尼也疑似受到這個未知體的影響。而在未知體的核心旁邊有一具宛如屍體般沉睡的人類,那個人正是失蹤的鈴木,鈴木就像作著夢活在仙境中。

故事分成好幾個視點,除了鈴木之外,其他人都是在地球上努力掙扎生存的人。其實我個人還滿喜歡這種末日災難的故事,所以讀起來還滿開心的。

其中一個視點是國中女生相川,她從普通的女孩子突然失去好友、成為政府底下的工作人員,開始在災區衝鋒陷陣、獲得特殊能力,成為英雄。這個角色應該是故事裡,描寫最多,也出現最多次的角色吧,不過經歷這麼多的相川卻對拯救世界完全沒有任何的動搖,雖然會覺得這樣的人類果然還是只存在在書裡吧?但老實說在這種末日災難的故事裡面,還是需要這種角色才能帶給人救贖。

這個故事的其中一個論點應該是:儘管普尼帶給人類巨大的災難,但為了人類世界的和平,是否有權利破壞另一個人的美好世界呢?而人類的所作所為,看在被破壞的世界的人眼裡,是不是也跟普尼一樣,都只是惡魔般的行徑呢?

不過因為我是人類,所以還是只能以人類本位來思考,所以最後成功完成了人類的宿願的地方,我還是很開心。

真希望恒川光太郎的書可以再被翻譯啊。
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