Kusosuke Natsukawa's new book, The Wood of The Beginning, tortures what modern Japanese have lost

Popular writer Kusosuke Natsukawa is famous for his series of medical novels "The Medical Records of the Gods", which has sold 3.3 million copies. At present, his novel "The Wood of Beginning" is at the top of the best-seller list in Japanese literature and art. In this work, Natsukawa Kusuke changes the routine of medical novels, and through the exploration of folklore, he tortures what modern Japanese have lost.

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1978, After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at Shinshu University, Natsukawa has been working in local medical work at Nagano Prefecture Hospital.

In 2009, he won the 10th Elementary School Library Novel Award for his debut novel "The Medical Records of The Gods", and thus rose to prominence in the literary world. The book was named second in the Bookstore Book Awards in 2010 and was re-nominated the following year, setting a record for the same work for two consecutive years.

Natsukawa Issei is good at using "warm stories that go straight to the heart" to explore what life really looks like, and what the so-called "living" should mean. The protagonist of "The Medical Record of the Gods", the physician Kurihara Kazuzumi, politely refused the opportunity to enter the university hospital and chose to stay at Honjo Hospital, where there was a serious shortage of doctors and was busy all day. In order to make a commitment to patients and for the ideal medical treatment in their minds, he and his companions braved the pressure of perennial shortage of manpower to take care of every patient who came here for help, warming their lonely and tired hearts. "The Medical Records of the Gods" makes people understand the mystery of life and death, and thus becomes a magical work full of power and soothing hearts.

In 2017, Natsukawa Kusosuke released another masterpiece full of fantasy colors, "Cat Who Wants to Guard the Book". The novel is set in a small used bookstore in the corner of the street, where high school students Natsuki Hayataro and his grandfather live, facing the monotony of daily life, neither disgusted nor tired, and living very leisurely. However, his grandfather suddenly passed away, which seemed to have lost contact with the whole world for Lin Taro, who had no friends and hated school, and even the old bookstore that was dependent on him was facing the fate of being closed, and when he was entangled and ready to give up, an orange tabby cat broke into his life.

"The Cat Who Wants to Guard the Book" is known as the twenty-first century version of the "Galactic Railway Night" because of its warm healing story, and the sentence "You are never alone, there are many people silently guarding you" in the book has aroused strong resonance among countless readers. The book received five-star praise from the book review website Reader, and was reprinted many times soon after publication, and the multilingual copyrights such as Chinese and Korean were also sold quickly, and the simplified version of the Chinese has been published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.

Chika Fujisaki, the protagonist of Kusasuke Natsukawa's novel The Wood of The Beginning, is a student at Toto University in Tokyo, specializing in folklore at the Faculty of Letters. Her mentor, Furuya Shinjiro, was a very good but stubborn folklorist who insisted on walking all over Japan on his feet, even if he had difficulty with his legs and feet. On a slow journey from north to south, Furuya asked Fujisaki: What exactly are the losses of modern Japanese?

In natsukawa's words, "The Beginning Tree" is a slightly incredible story about trees and forests, the sky and the earth, and the human heart. Critics have regarded "The Wood of The Beginning" as the "Tale of Tono" in the new century that questions the meaning of survival, saying that through this novel, Natsukawa's creation has also risen to a higher new level.

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Source: China Reading Daily