【ASA配送】パンダ・パシフィカ｜Panda Pacifica
Panda Pacifica
by Haneko Takayama
ISBN: 9784022520166
Price: ¥1980 (tax included)
Release date: October 7, 2024
196 pp.
Pandas, living creatures, and duck toys.
Nozomu Omori's secret art of novels, which wraps everything softly and delicately.
Here, the universality of the
responsibility to care for life is gently presented-- Kimiyo Ogawa
(from “One Book,” October 2024 issue)
In the midst of an era in which terrorism and war have become the norm,
an organization exists that plans to realize peace by offering its lives.
Think of you and the world will be saved.
Synopsis:
Motoko, who has hay fever in early spring, is asked by Mr. Murasaki, a co-worker at her part-time job
to take care of the small animals she keeps at home.
Later, she learns from Mr. Murasaki's emails that he has quit his job
and has been moving from place to place overseas for a certain purpose
as he unravels the history of hunting, breeding, and reproduction of pandas and humans.
While Motoko continues to care for the animals under the direction of Mr. Murasaki,
the last panda owned by Japan, Ling Ling, dies at the Ueno Zoo, and
in China, there is a poisoning of processed food and a major earthquake before the Olympics.
The overwhelming asymmetry between taking a life and giving a life.
What does this overwhelming asymmetry leave behind in our consciousness and our lives?
While approaching the essence of “taking care of life,”
this work delivers a small, secretive effort to resist the violence brought about by unseen malice.
パンダ・パシフィカ
高山 羽根子 著
ISBN：9784022520166
定価：1980円（税込）
発売日：2024年10月7日
四六判上製 196ページ
パンダと生きとし生けるものとアヒルのおもちゃ。
すべてをやわらかく繊細にくるむ、小説の秘術――大森望
ここには、“命をあずかる”という
ケア責任の普遍性がそっと提示されている――小川公代
（「一冊の本」2024年10月号より）
テロと戦争が常態化する時代の渦中に
命をあずかり平和の実現を企てる組織が存在した――？
あなたを思えば世界は救われる。
【あらすじ】
春先になると花粉症で鼻が利かなくなるモトコは、
副業で働くアルバイト先の同僚・村崎さんから
自宅で飼う小動物たちの世話を頼まれる。
その後、職場を辞めた村崎さんのメールからは、
パンダと人類をめぐる狩猟、飼育、繁殖の歴史がひも解かれ、
ある目的で海外を転々としていることが見えてくるのだった。
モトコが村崎さんの指示を仰ぎながら動物たちの世話をつづけるなか、
上野動物園では日本が所有する最後のパンダ・リンリンが亡くなり、
中国ではオリンピックを前に、加工食品への毒物混入事件と大地震が起きる――。
命をあずかることと奪うこと。
この圧倒的な非対称は、私たちの意識と生活に何を残すのか？
「命をあずかる」というケアの本質に迫りながら、
見えない悪意がもたらす暴力に抗うための、
小さく、ひそやかな営為を届ける問題作。
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