想像ラジオ

In a seaside town after the 2011 tsunami, a DJ who calls himself Arc is somehow stuck high up in a cedar tree, chatting away on a station that can be heard only inside the listener's head. Messages pour in and he reads them out between songs, and slowly it becomes clear that most of his audience is, like him, dead. One voice he longs for never comes through: the wife and son he left behind cannot pick up the broadcast, and he cannot sense them either, so he sets about imagining the lives of those who are deaf to his show. Alternating with Arc's chatter are chapters about S, a writer who has lost someone dear and strains to hear the dead, as both sides of that divide try to reach each other.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

193 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 2011

First published

2013 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9784309021720 (original)