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This is a parody of society in one Asian nation. I got the idea of "the nation of pigs" from the prediction of one writer. I think what he predicted more than 50 years ago is becoming a reality.

Most people in the country have lost their own pride and discretion but they don't realize it. Even though it is affluent materially, they have lost important things and it makes society in it distorted.

Because of this, I predict the collapse of the nation in the near future. As a man who lives there, I want to record what is going on in it as a novel. This version is the earlier part of the novel and if some people buy it, I will write a latter part.

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Fantastique

Fantasy urbaine

Urban

Fiction

Fantasy

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Publié par	eBookIt.com
Date de parution	11 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456637071
Langue	English

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The Kingdom of Pigs

by

Shinji Suzuki

Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
http://www.eBookIt.com

ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-3707-1

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Contents
Prelude
Chapter 1

Prelude
“Those who have lost their own discretion and pride shall be ‘pigs,’” a wise man once said.
“If what he said is correct,” Shinji wondered, “almost all the people in this country are pigs!”
More strictly speaking, not “almost all” but “exactly all” the people in this country were ‘pigs’ when it comes to those he had met in his life. Surely, from his point of view, they looked like pigs not only in terms of their behavior, but also their appearance. Even though they claimed themselves to be humans, without a doubt, they didn’t look like humans to him. They had oinking noses and pointed ears, their skins were pink, and they even had tails!
“Is it possible?” he asked himself. “All the people living in this country are pigs?”
He trembled with fear. He hurried into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Surely, there was the face of a young man. He sighed and asked himself again,
“If I am the only human in this country, why don’t the others sense something is wrong with me? Their appearances are totally different from mine!”
Certainly, that was strange. One human and millions of ‘pigs.’ There was no possibility that they overlooked it. But actually, they didn’t speak of it at least in front of him. He thought about it for a while and came up with one working hypothesis.
“Originally, they were all humans, and even after having changed into pigs, they didn’t realize it.”
It’s not something that had started recently. Looking back on his childhood, from the beginning, he had felt something strange with others. They were probably humans, not exactly pigs, but from his viewpoint, they didn’t look like humans. Besides their appearance, they seemed to have lost “their own discretion and pride” as the wise man had said, though it wasn’t clear whether they “had lost” it or “hadn’t had” it from the beginning. What was clear for him was that since the moment he was born, he had been feeling himself different from others, even his parents. He had been looking for the answer about why and one day had come across a book that contained the sentence above. It was shocking to him but seemed to have something convincing in it.

It was very vague, but he felt he’d gotten a hints about the question he had secretly had for a long time and became somehow radiant. Then he turned his eyes to the clock. It was 8:00 a.m. It was time for him to leave for the office. He quickly changed his clothes, put on his jacket, and left home in the cold winter weather.