Book: The Easy Life in Kamusari
Author: Shion Miura
Pages: 205
This is my 93rd read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village o Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is "take it easy". At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull. Yuki learns to fell trees and plant saplings. He begins to embrace local festivals, he's mesmerized by legends of the mountain, ad he might be falling in love. In learning to respect the forest on Mt. Kamusari for its majestic qualities and its inexplicable secrets, Yuki starts to appreciate Kamusari's harmony with nature and its ancient traditions.
This was an okay book. Kind of boring. It is very short, and I listened to it, so maybe that was the problem. It is slow paced, and just about everyday life - not a lot of excitement. It isn't well translated.
Stars: 3
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