★★★★★ 戦後の日本からブラジルへ渡った4万人のアマゾンでの壮絶な生活、そこから逃げ出した人々の底辺を這うような生活。下巻は大迫力の復讐劇。大きな自然を前にして人ひとりなんてちっぽけで、そのちっぽけななかで、人は一生かけて後悔をしたり、人を愛したりする。1000ページ一気に読める。
★★★★★ After WW2, 40,000 Japanese people crossed the ocean to Brazil to start better lives promised by Japanese government. Instead, they lived and died at the bottom of the society and jungle. Let the revenge start.
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🔽 基本情報 🔽
ワイルド•ソウル
垣根涼介 2006
Wild Soul
Ryosuke Kakine
1040 pages (512 + 528)
2024年6月 読了

🔽🔽 読書記録 🔽🔽
上下二巻の壮大なストーリー。
戦後の日本からブラジルへ渡った4万人のアマゾンでの壮絶な生活、そこから逃げ出した人々の底辺を這うような生活。

そして下巻へ。
現在の日本、東京。三人の日系人の男たちの日本政府に対する復讐劇が始まる。

読んでいる方としてはアマゾンでの大変な生活を知っているから、もちろん完全に三人の男の肩を持つ。彼らの計画は次へ次へと進んでいく。

この本での何度も出てくる通り、大きな自然を前にして人ひとりなんてちっぽけで、そのちっぽけななかで、一生かけて後悔をしたり、人を愛したりする。
そういうところも滲み出ていて、全体像でとても面白い。
アクションもドラマもたっぷりで一気に読める傑作。

🔽 買えるところ 🔽

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ワイルド・ソウル 上 （新潮文庫　新潮文庫） [ 垣根 涼介 ]
価格：880円（税込、送料無料) (2025/10/4時点)
ワイルド・ソウル 下 （新潮文庫　新潮文庫） [ 垣根 涼介 ]
価格：880円（税込、送料無料) (2025/10/4時点)

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★★★★★ After WW2, 40,000 Japanese people crossed the ocean to Brazil to start better lives promised by Japanese government. Instead, they lived and died at the bottom of the society and jungle. Let the revenge start.

🔽 log 🔽
(Wild Soul)
Ryosuke Kakine, 2006
1040 pages (512 + 528)
Read 2024.6
(Not available in English)


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
1000+ pages in Japanese, but it's nonstop explosion of excitement that you can't put the book down.

After the second world war, Japanese government encouraged people in villages to move to Brazil, assuring them they would have land and work guaranteed.
Instead the 40,000 people were left in the amazon forest to survive alone.
Those who did survive and escape, lived at the bottom of various south American towns and cities.

That's the first book, then, we move on to the second book where they start their revenge.

Today's Japan, you meet 3 wild men, their faces look like Japanese but their eyes are dangerously bright; they have one mission, one target, the Japanese government.

You spent one chunk of a book following their horrible lives so you are 100% on the side of these men, and you've also learned that this really was how many of those Japanese lived in Brazil.

The book also reminds you how small we are in the huge endless nature of the amazon, one person is nothing. The nature would easily swallow you.
Yet, we still live, we still regret the actions we did in the past, we still love.

It's an epic and 1000 pages full of drama, action and love. A must read (if it becomes available in English!)

🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Wild Soul [1] [In Japanese Language]

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