Noma Children's Literature Award
忘れられた島へ (偕成社の創作文学 30)
A children's novel about a boy whose father, a special attack pilot, died in May 1945, and who travels to a remote island in Kagoshima where his father's body is said to have washed ashore. Carrying the weight of his father's death and his young mother's hardship, he encounters island life and faces both the sorrow of war and the will to live.
Work Information
A journey to the island tied to his father's death opens before the boy the memory of war and the life of the island.
Wasurerareta Shima e is a full-length work of children's literature in which Gennosuke Nagasaki presents the memory of war through a child's perspective. A boy raised by his mother after losing his father, a special attack pilot, visits a remote island in Kagoshima and gradually confronts family loss, the scars of war, and the lives of the people who remain there. The work portrays war not as a distant event but as pain left in families and places.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 偕成社
- Published
- 1980-06-01
- Pages
- 338 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784037203009
- ISBN-10
- 4037203006
- Price
- 651 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
特攻機で戦死した父の33回忌を前に、清は父の遺体が流れついたという島を訪ねた。 対象年齢：小学上級から
Reviews
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多くの方に是非読んで欲しい。
私は昭和47年生まれで、戦争を肌で感じることはない世代です。 私はこの本とは小学六年生の時に初めて図書室で出会いました。何か、もぞもぞと変な感じがしたのを覚えています。私の戦争へのイメージ、特攻隊へのイメージが豹変しました。 たぶん、この本のテーマは「永遠の０」に通じるものだと思います。 是非、戦争を知らない多くの方々に読んでみて欲しい素晴らしい本です。