検索キーワード： 著者 "Sequoia Nagamatsu" すべてのカテゴリー

Dr Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter’s research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, this story follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE "Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." — New...

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. Every story in the collection turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy when we are at our most vulnerable."

En 2030, un arqueólogo llega al Círculo Polar Ártico para continuar el trabajo de su recién fallecida hija. Allí, los investigadores están estudiando secretos que ha desenterrado el permafrost derretido; entre ellos, los restos perfectamente conservados de una niña que parece haber muerto de un virus antiguo... Una vez desatada, la peste ártica se extenderá por el mundo y cambiará la vida en la tierra para las generaciones venideras, por lo que la humanidad se verá obligada a idear formas innovadoras de afrontar la tragedia.