Shinchosha Co., Ltd. “Sora Wataru Classroom” will start broadcasting on NHK Drama 10 soon! Arata Iyohara’s latest work, “Ai wo Tsuru Umi”, full of scientific sparkle, is on sale today!

Shinchosha Co., Ltd. press release (2024.09.26) Shinchosha Co., Ltd. “Sora Wataru Classroom” will start airing on NHK Drama 10 soon! Arata Iyohara’s latest work, “Ai wo Tsuru Umi”, full of scientific sparkle, is on sale today! His masterpieces include “Three Kilometers to the Moon”, “Silver Snow in August”, and “The Airborne Classroom”, which will be aired in October. Shinchosha will publish Arata Iyohara’s long-awaited collection of short stories, “The Sea That Inherits Indigo,” which depicts the important future that only science can make us aware of.
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Since “Three Kilometers to the Moon,” which won the Shizuoka Shoten Grand Prize, the Nitta Jiro Literary Award, and the Miraiya Shoten Grand Prize, Arata Iyohara has continued to depict the hope that science gives people, and in this work he depicts important things. It is important to accept and convey the message. The five stories feature a middle school girl who lives with her grandfather on the coast of Tokushima, a woman who works as a freelance web designer deep in the mountains of Nara, and a former photographer in Yamaguchi who searches for the legendary soil that gives Hagiyaki the perfect color. A young man, a civil servant at a town hall in Nagasaki who is tired of routine work that leaves no room for individual thought, and a pregnant woman in Hokkaido who tells a lie out of concern for her elderly father. This is a story about how these people find hope for tomorrow by coming into contact with the essence of science. Message from the author In this collection of short stories called “The Sea that Inherits Indigo,” I challenge myself to reposition my consciousness, which tends to get lost in the daily hustle and bustle, into the eternal flow of the earth and nature. Through writing this book, I was able to realize once again that in the diverse natural environment of the Japanese archipelago, the people of each region have inherited a continuous tradition that blends with the
characteristics and rhythms of the land. I did. A solitary island in the Sea of ​​Japan, a cedar forest in Yoshino, a snowy field in Engaru, a mandarin orange field in Nagasaki, and a pocket beach in Tokushima. I would be happy if you could feel the atmosphere and people of each region through the five stories. — Arata Iyohara
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/47877/1674/47877-1674-e4292d9c7971e021dcae4195b4a0290b-1301×591.jpg [Content introduction] A middle school girl from Tokushima manages to hatch a sea turtle egg and tries to raise it on her own. A pregnant woman in Hokkaido lies about where she picked up a meteorite for her elderly father. On an island in Yamaguchi, a former
photographer searches for the legendary soil that gives Hagiyaki its exquisite color. An important future that only science can make us aware of, with an eye on the flow of time that far exceeds human life. All five sparkling stories.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/47877/1674/47877-1674-f8f54d29f023b186b63d27c28281921b-1366×2048.jpg Arata Iyohara (C) Shinchosha [Author introduction] Shin Iyohara Born in Osaka in 1972. After graduating from the Faculty of Science at Kobe University, he majored in Earth and Planetary Science at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo and completed his doctoral course. In 2010, he won the Seishi Yokomizo Mystery Award for “Odaiba Island Baby.” In 2019, he won the Nitta Jiro Literary Award, the Shizuoka Shoten Award, and the Miraiya Novel Award for “Three Kilometers to the Moon.” His other books include “August’s Silver Snow”, “Ooruri Meteor Shower”, “Sora Wandering Classroom”, “Summer of the Earth Department of Hanamaki Agricultural High School”, “Magnetic Pole Reversal Day”, and “Luke’s Ark”. ”, “Phantom in the Museum”, “When Butterflies Dance, Mystery becomes Clear”, “Chouko’s Reasoning as a Weather Forecaster”, “Blueness”, and “Contamination”, among others.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/47877/1674/47877-1674-125efd9cb810138880bcc4eef5e00416-970×654.jpg [Book data] The sea that inherits indigo [Author name] Arata Iyohara [Release date] September 26th [Bookbinding] Soft cover [List price] 1,760 yen (tax included) [ISBN]978-4-10-336214-2 [URL] https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/336214/