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小説『奇跡の島〜木曜島物語〜』発刊記念トークイベント

Saturday, June 29, 2019 – 14:00 pm

出演：飯島浩樹 (著者)

スペシャルゲスト：ロジャー・パルバース（作家・演出家・映画監督）

司会：加藤久恵（元民放テレビ局アナウンサー）

「めぐりあう人と人は、無意識につながっている…」

２０１７年、オーストラリア北部に浮かぶ小島、木曜島で生まれた女性が、やむを得ぬ事情で生き別れになった日本人の実父とSNSを通じて奇跡的にめぐりあい、56年ぶりに沖縄で奇跡の再会を果たした。その一部始終を目撃したシドニー在住の著者が、実話をベースに書き下ろしたフィクション発刊を記念したトークイベントを開催する。

イベントでは、現在 TBSシドニー通信員、豪州かりゆし会会長、FCAオーストラリア・南太平洋外国記者協会会長などを務める著者の飯島浩樹氏が、小説のテーマである「意味のある偶然の一致」について、著者自信が経験したまるで”必然”であるかのように起きた”偶然”の出会いや出来事を、小説執筆のエピソードを交えながら語る。

また、スペシャルゲストに作家で演出家、2017年に映画「STAR SAND –星砂物語-」を初監督したロジャー・パルバース氏を迎え、著者との関わりなどについて聞く。司会は元民放テレビ局アナウンサーで、現在シドニー在住ボイス&動画クリエーターの加藤久恵氏。

『奇跡の島〜木曜島物語〜』

令和元年５月１日発行。沖縄教販刊。

【著者】飯島浩樹 Hiroki Ijima 【イラスト】フーパーいずみ Izumi Hooper

[あらすじ]シドニーに住む真子のもとへ、腹違いの妹と名乗る珠美が沖縄から尋ねてくる。 オーストラリア北部木曜島で、かつて父と現地の女性との間に生まれた姉を一緒に探して欲しいというのだ…

【そのほか収録作品】

• 化石の木～ジュラシック・ツリーを探せ！～
• 実録「木曜島物語」

参加ご希望の方は、店頭でスタッフにお伝えいただくか電話（02-8551-4533）、メールでご連絡ください。

Join us for the launch of Kiseki no Shima 奇跡の島 〜木曜島物語 (Miracle Island – The Tale of Thursday Island) with author Hiroki Iijima.

Kiseki no Shima 奇跡の島 〜木曜島物語 (Miracle Island – The Tale of Thursday Island)  is a story inspired by the miraculous tale of an Australian woman searching for her Japanese father on Facebook. Sally Rudd was born on Thursday Island, where many Japanese pearl shell divers were sent to work. She was finally reunited with her Okinawan father who had left Thursday Island more than 50 some years ago without meeting her.

Author, Hiroki Iijima will talk about ‘a strange sequence of meaningful and coincidental events’ that not only connected Thursday Island and Okinawa, but also Australia and Japan, people to people, heart to heart.

Author, Theatre Director and Film Director, Roger Pulvers will join the event and talk about his relationship with Hiroki.

The event will be moderated by Hisae Kato, former Japanese TV presenter and voice and motion picture creator who lives in Sydney.

2pm start.

RSVP in store, by phone: 02 8251 4533 or email.

Hiroki Iijima wrote “Kiseki no Shima (Miracle Island)~The Tale of Thursday Island~” soon after he witnessed the miraculous reunion of an Australian lady, who was born on Thursday Island and her biological father in Okinawa, Japan.

He also wrote a song about the story and has been singing at many events Hiroki is also working as a journalist and reporter for a major TV station, Tokyo Broadcasting System(TBS). He is a President of FCA-Foreign Correspondents’ Association Australia and the South pacific, President of Goshu Kariyushi-kai, Australian Representative of Okinawa Industry Promotion Public Corporation and Yamanashi Promotional Ambassador.

Roger Pulvers was born in Brooklyn, New York. Graduating UCLA after just three years of study, he went on to Harvard Graduate School, and then to the Soviet Union, Poland and France. He arrived in Japan in 1967 and went to Kyoto, where, at Kyoto Sangyo University, he taught Russian and Polish and began a writing career. Among his many books in Japanese and English are novels such as “The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn” and “Star Sand” which he directed as his first feature film in 2017.