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A camera that captures miracles
A camera that captures miracles
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Book Introduction
“When the final secret of 'Angel' is revealed, tears flow uncontrollably.” _Japanese reader review

Another legendary, emotional romance novel that will have you crying is out.
A beautiful story that will expand the boundaries of love.

“Do I have a future?” Arata, a man who lives without any motivation, not knowing when the acute leukemia he suffered from as a child will relapse.
“Do you believe in miracles?” Ella, a girl with the mysterious ability to heal sick people by taking pictures with her mother’s heirloom camera.
A miraculous love story created by the hearts of two people who wanted to protect each other.

Arata, who turned twenty this year, meets a mysterious girl named Ella at the beach he always goes to at sunset.
Arata feels strangely excited even though it's his first time meeting him.
After Ella appears, strange things begin to happen one after another around Arata.
For example, a grandmother's burn wounds are healed, a child's knee is healed after a fall, or a cancer patient staying at a guesthouse is cured as if it had been washed away...
As Arata spends time with Ella, who calls herself an angel, his feelings for her grow.
But as Ella's hidden secrets are revealed one by one, their love flows in an unpredictable direction.

"The Camera That Captures Miracles" begins as a fresh youth romance, and as Ella's abilities are revealed, it takes on a fantasy feel. Then, as events unfold one by one that reveal Ella's hidden secrets, it presents the fun of guessing, "What is the real truth she was trying to hide?"
In addition, it prepares a shocking twist at the end that will have readers shedding tears, plunging them into a state of intense emotion.

This book poses the question, "How much can you give up for someone you love? Is it really possible to love someone with everything you have?" and will present a miraculous moment that expands the boundaries of love as we generally understand it.
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index
The night an angel descended
The days that pass by
The beginning of a miracle
Angel's Secret
Hello, my angel
Angel's Footsteps

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Into the book
This is a story of a miracle I saw.

--- p.7

The time when the sky over the sea is most beautiful.
It was a sky that seemed as if an angel was coming down.
“It feels like an angel is coming down from heaven.”
When I looked back, there was a girl standing on the sandy beach.
Holding the camera around my neck and pressing the shutter button diligently.
It wasn't just the sudden voice that startled me.
Because what he muttered was exactly the same thought I had just had.

--- p.18

“Okay, let’s say hello again.
“I am Ella.”
The kid looked up at me.
“Please take care of me, Arata.
And happy birthday.”
First, out of courtesy, I went down to the torii and gently took the hand that the child extended.
The kid smiled brightly as he watched me flustered again.
At that moment, I was sure.
This kid is definitely going to be a very important person in my life?
--- p.28

Ella squatted down and examined the wound, then slowly pointed the camera at Mizuho.
“Hey, what are you trying to do now?”
"A photo at a time like this?" Ella frowned, ignoring me and pressing the shutter without hesitation.
- Click.
As soon as the shutter sounded, I witnessed another unbelievable sight.
The next moment, the wound on Mizuho's knee disappeared in an instant, as if the waves had erased a picture drawn on a sandy beach.

--- p.46

“Do you believe in miracles?”
I remembered asking the same question a while ago.
A chill ran down my spine.
I guess I've become friends with a great person.
“……What happens if I say, ‘Believe me?’”
When I asked that question while slowly observing her expression, Ella smiled brightly.
But he just laughed and didn't answer anymore.

This was the beginning of the 'miracle story' I saw.

--- p.49

The story of a dream given up is much harder to tell than the story of chasing a dream.
"are you okay."
“Are you okay?”
“Arata is definitely alive.
If you're alive, you can do anything.
“If you don’t give up on your dreams, the day will come when they will come true.”
“That may be true, but.”
--- p.78

“Arata, it seems you’ve discovered an important secret….”
"what……."
An inexplicable thrill came over me.
“Haha, just kidding! Don’t make that face anymore.”
Ella, her face twisted into a grimace, giggled like a mischievous little girl.
Then he took another deep breath and said:
“Want to know more about me?”
--- p.117

"……I am."
Without realizing it, my clenched fist started to tremble slightly.
“I will never forget Ella…….”
That was the only thing that came to mind.
I just couldn't stand to tell Ella that.
“Yeah, thanks.”
Ella looked straight at me and smiled brightly.
And he said this.
"I'm okay.
“Because Arata is here.”
--- p.130

“The sea and the mountains, you know, are closely related.
There is a beautiful mountain next to the beautiful sea.
“Neither people, nor the sea, nor the mountains, can be beautiful on their own.”
“Arata is like a mountain to me.
“It’s not something I absolutely need to live, but it’s something that makes me beautiful just by being there.”
--- p.157

“I mean, Arata.
I don't think life is long.
It is the same for both angels and humans born into this world.
What matters is how you live within a limited time.
And if I met someone precious and lived until today for that person's happiness, then I am happy enough with that.”
--- p.173

“Do you know why when you take pictures of people with that camera, they all smile?”
Ella asked.
I tried to answer, but my voice was blocked by the crying and I couldn't speak properly.
“……It’s because there’s someone by my side who makes me smile.”
--- p.186

Because this world is a place overflowing with ‘miracles’ that surpass my imagination.
--- p.243

Publisher's Review
“Why are you doing this?”

As Ella's secrets are revealed one by one, a cruel truth rises to the surface.
And the proof of desperate love encountered 10 years later

Twenty-year-old Arata was looking at the sea of ​​Ubara, and thirty-year-old Arata was looking at the cherry blossoms of the Meguro River.
While twenty-year-old Arata spent his days listlessly, worried about the recurrence of his leukemia, thirty-year-old Arata became a doctor and works in pediatric surgery.
At the age of twenty, Arata had Ella, the 'angel' who performed miracles, but now, at the age of thirty, Ella is no longer by his side.
As he sends away the children who should be the furthest from death, one by one, Arata feels his own helplessness as a doctor.
And out of habit, I think of Ella.
Ella could help these kids get better.
It could work a miracle.


The book alternates between the 30 days Arata spent with Ella in Ubara in the spring of his twenties and his current life as a doctor in Meguro, Tokyo, ten years later in the spring of his thirties.

When Arata first met Ella, he just thought she was strange.
When Ella took a picture, her grandmother's arm, which had been burned by hot oil, became clean as if nothing had happened.
Then I had a question.
When the wound on the little boy's knee from falling on the beach disappeared.
And I was sure.
When I met a couple who were guests at the guesthouse run by Arata's grandparents at a nearby shrine.
The moment Ella took a picture of the two, the bruise on her husband's leg disappeared.
The wife who took the picture with him probably also recovered from cervical cancer that she had recently discovered.
Only then did Ella reveal one of her secrets.
He said he was an 'angel'.
If you take pictures of sick people with this camera, which is my mother's heirloom, they can get better.

But the couple leaving the guesthouse the next day did not remember Ella.
I asked back if Arata was alone at the shrine yesterday.
After the couple left, when Arata pressed her, Ella revealed her second secret.
The person who took the picture and helped her get better will forget Ella.
Wouldn't that be too cruel for Ella? So Arata swore.
I will definitely protect Ella, who is infinitely lonely and weak.
He said that he would never forget Ella.
But why did Arata's promise turn out to be nothing?

《The Camera that Captures Miracles》 vividly unfolds the miraculous moments that ordinary people long for, crossing the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
How wonderful it would be if all painful wounds and illnesses could be instantly healed. But miracles come at a price, and ironically, the more brutal that price, the more heartbreaking the final twist.

Ella, who used her powers as an angel and bore the full cost of it.
Ella said that even if she were to be reborn, she would make the same choice again.
Ella said that if I met someone precious and lived for that person's happiness, that would be my true happiness.
Perhaps this book is saying that the miracle is not the healing power shown by angels, but the love itself of someone meeting and sharing their hearts.

How about reading this brilliant novel about love and hope this spring, as one warm heart begets another warmth, and one help leads to another?
Just like a Japanese reader's review said, "Coming across this book was a miracle for me," you might encounter another miracle.

“Because this world is a place overflowing with ‘miracles’ that surpass my imagination.” (p. 243)
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: March 29, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 244 pages | 278g | 128*188*15mm
- ISBN13: 9791193358702
- ISBN10: 1193358701

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