Hiromi by Takuji Ichikawa

One of my hobby is reading books. I like Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, books by Torey Hayden, Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana, Ryuuseiwagon by Shigematsu Kiyoshi, etc...Now what book I wanna introduce you here is "Hiromi" written by Ichikawa Takuji. You might not know about this book, but you perhaps get to know if I say "Ima Aini Ikimasu" is also written by him.


When I say with a word, Hiromi is a story of a bond of family. The title of Hiromi is a name of boy and a chief character of this story. He is a elementary school student. He is sickly by nature. His parents notice that Horomi has a wound on the side and he looks very hard on the land, but comfortable in the water. They use internet and find that there are few people having same constitution as Hiromi. They are called "the children of Atom" Their feature is that 1) they have wounds on the sides, 2) they are weak on the land but strong in the water, so 3) they can dive for very long time. When Hiromi's family(Hiromi, Hiromi's parents and actually, he has a yonger sister) knows Hiromi's constitution, they have 2 choices, 1) Hiromi keeps living on his home with hardness, or, 2) he goes to America to live with other "the children of Atom" by sea. They don't wanna separate
family, but decide to leave Hiromi to go to America, so that he can live easily.


When I finished reading this book, I just felt...something
strange. "They can't live on the land!? What a strange!" Of
course, this story is fiction, but I was drawn by this story,
and thought it is a real story.


There are many intractable diseases and suffered people, not like Hiromi's disease, but lots of diseases which treatments are not possible. There are also people who are suffering invisible diseases including mental diseases. We should rethink only not for ourselves, but also these kind of people to live happily. We can't live without healthy body, and we also can't live without healthy hearts. We have to have both. We should know there are many kind of people and some suffer their problems, and other have to wait for their death.


This book is not moved story, or draw tears, but something heart warming. Also, Ichikawa Takuji is a great author. He writes well, and his expression is abundant and soft. You can go to
his imagination world easily.