Special feature To you who are a little uneasy in the future.5 novels that gently snuggle up to the tired heart and give courage

人生は予期せぬことが起きるもの。とはいうものの、昨年から続く新型コロナウイルス感染症拡大によって今なお起きている出来事は、本当に予想もしなかったことばかりで、不安な気持ちでお過ごしの方も多いのではないでしょうか。当たり前の生活が奪われ、未来もうまく思い描けない中、この先どうすればいいのか……と頭を抱えてしまいますよね。今回カドブンでは、ライターの瀧井朝世さんに「不安がちょっぴりなくなる小説」というテーマで、5冊の本を選んでいただきました。どこに行く気も、何をする気も起きない。これからどうすればいいのか全くわからない。そんなときはぜひ、本を手に取ってみませんか？　立ち上がる、その第一歩の原動力を与えてくれる出会いがあるかもしれません。

Masami Oshima "Momoko To Rabbit" (Kadokawa Bunko)

Momoko, 22 years old, whose job hunting is not successful, the part -time job has been fired, and the life after graduating from college is completely invisible. She was in her room and concentrated on sewing, but she left home with her family. Here is her wandering journey. Despite being in a friend's apartment, the person who decided to find a job safely gradually sparse Momoko. She inevitably rolls into another friend's room, but she has to leave the unexpected events again. She goes to see her brother who lives in a company's single dormitory. No matter where she goes, no matter how cozy it is, she goes on a journey for some reason. It may seem like a story of "searching for yourself", but not at all. Momoko is not looking for himself. After all, she is leaving home, so she is the highest priority to live. She is not stuck, but she's sloppy and thick in a good way. At first, I lived a reliable life, but when I visited a seaside town with many hospitals, I did the job of cleaning and sterilizing and sterilizing and sterilizing. Take care of the temple cleaning and become familiar with the local community. She is sometimes used for cheap wages, but she gets a place where she goes and builds her relationship with the people there. Her appearance looks really supple.

They will be read by the characteristics of the area where they go and the human patterns there, but in the meantime, the reader will notice.Momoko is growing.She did not "search for himself".Through her journey, she raised her nucleus.The journey of her life will continue in the future, and there will be difficulties, but she will surely live strongly.

Whether you're living a fluttering life or getting lost, people can raise themselves.It's a book that makes you think so.

Eiko Ozaki "Hotel Medowsa" (Kadokawa Bunko)

This is the appearance of multiple people who leave the place where they are, like Momoko.They head to a hotel in the back of the Finnish forest.There seems to be a door that can go to a different dimension.

Tamon Yano, a 40 -year -old, is a manager of a fortune -telling cafe.He lived with a feeling of emptiness, but ran away from violence.A 25 -year -old Kira Umebayashi has been told by her grandmother, "Become a person who is grateful to others," but she doesn't think she can be such a person, and she wants to change something.rice field.Soon, 55 -year -old Yoichi Tsubame, said that his wife, who died of illness last year, had the name of the hotel.The 50 -year -old Norie Kuone lives a satisfied life, but she was curious and arrived at the hotel.

These four people, whose age and living environment are completely different, spend time at the hotel while waiting for the day when they are guided by the door to a different dimension.It is not a story that moves to "somewhere that is not here" and reassuring life, but in a sense, it is a story of people just before.While each has a conversation, the quotes are all about.For example, Yano says this to the worries.

What my grandmother's grandmother said is extremely true, but she hits her knees as Yano says.

What do they do when the day of traveling is finally coming to a different dimension?Each decision is convincing, making any life affirm.It's a rich trip story.

Asako Hiruda "Ending Dress" (Poplar Bunko)

This work is associated with the common point of sewing and life maze. The main character, Mao Mashima, is 32 years old. She got acquainted with her in college, and she got married and lived together with Shiki Ichiro and that he had a brain tumor, but she looked at him about a year ago. Her pandemic cat, who was loved by her, died, and she lost her purpose and decided to die. She goes to a handicraft store to buy a rope, where she sees a poster of the "Last dressing classroom>. She was attracted to her purpose of making her costume, and she decided to take the course with three elderly women with different ages. She gets some tasks before she creates a costume, but her content is unique. , the clothes I longed for when I was fifteen years old>, , etc. Through her tasks, Aso looks back on her past, which is also her work that follows her memories with her string. At the same time, she knows her past and life through clothes made by each of the old women. There are also dramas for those who have gone around the age and have a variety of life.

The author himself likes sewing, so the depiction of making clothes is very polite.It is easy to understand how important the time to move the needle is for humans who are confused and exhausted.She is away from her classroom friends, but she is told that they are concerned about hemp, sometimes her eyes are hot.

The biggest beauty of this work is that he does not simply depict Aso as a poor woman.She is not only at the bottom of her sadness, but she regrets her attitude of her in her life, and she wants to be behind her.Rather than the story of a woman healing through her classroom, it's a story until she forgives her.

Haruna Temple "Today's honey, tomorrow" (Haruki Bunko)

Aoi, the protagonist of this work, is also in a turning point in life.She is 30 years old and lives with her lover, Anzai.He is a man who does not last long, but one day he suddenly returns to his parents' house and helps his family business.His father runs a wide range of locals.Aoi, who quit her job and headed to his hometown as she was going to marry her, turned her father opposed her marriage and cut off the two as "Noh."If she doesn't want to think she's impatient, she was ordered to collect money from the delinquent beekeeping garden, and she headed for one man named Kuroe.Chloe beekeeping garden runs in.Aoi will teach Kuroe for her beekeeping and pay the lesson fee to help her help her debt repayment in the flow of the story.

In fact, she has a special feeling for honey.She was hated by her when she was a junior high school student, and when she stopped accepting her meal, a woman gave her a small honey bottle.She was encouraged by the words, "If you add one honey to be a spoon, maybe your tomorrow will be better than today," and then regained her appetite.

The story goes on a good tempo, including the specific work of beekeeping and the delicious honey dishes, and the development of local cities.The delay is the marriage problem between Aoi and Anzai.She is not allowed to live away from her parents' house with him, and she lives alone in a cheap ragged part.She went to a beekeeping garden and not only Kuroe, who gave up her life, but also took care of her daughter who broke up with him, and she was energetic.I will act.Of course, this work is the story of the growth of Aoi, who has fallen into a distress, and her rebirth, but it is also a story of people who regain her positive attitude by meeting her and her.Surely the readers will be encouraged by the power of the blue blue, and you will think, "I will be better tomorrow than today."

New Iwara "Silver Snow in August" (Shinchosha)

A collection of short stories with 5 editions.The protagonists are all worried about their lives and cannot find their whereabouts.

The main character of the title work is a college student who is impatient because he is unable to get a job offer in job hunting.She is an Asian woman who works at a convenience store that she often goes, and she is always frustrated by her badness in Guen, but she sometimes learns about her surprising aspect.It is a work that feels irony of the Japanese who tends to look down on the other person just because he is not good at Japanese, but in that, it incorporates a certain scientific knowledge and shows an unexpected beautiful scenery about this earth.Like the author from science, all four other editions are the content that changes their mind, touching the scientific world that the hero did not know before.

In the second episode, "Returning to the Sea," Kaho, who raises a young daughter alone and is exhausted both physically and mentally, meets Miyashita, a woman who draws marine creatures such as whales at the Natural History Museum. She is also interested in the ecology of the whales, but she also reads her background in Miyashita's life. Episode 3 "Arno and Lemon" is an old apartment that a young man working for a real estate company has been forced to evacuate. She says she is looking for the owner of the certificate Bat who comes to the veranda, but why does pigeons come to the room? In the fourth episode, "Picking up glass" is a story of a woman who met a young man who makes artworks using diatoms that use glass as the main component. If you read this, you will inevitably want to search for diatomy art online, but you will be surprised if you can make such beautiful works so far in a small world that can only be seen with a microscope. Episode 5, "100,000 years of West Wind", meets an old man who is giving a kite with a meteorological observatory on the way to a man on a trip.

This book is even impressive as to whether there is such a beautiful, mysterious and deep world in your familiar nature.How about unraveling when you are tired of human society?