The Day of the Gorilla Trial

A work by Mr. Koto Ri Sudo (technically in the mystery category). This is a book I bought based on the cover. 📖Synopsis📖 Rose, a Western Lowland Gorilla born in Cameroon. It would be more accurate to call her a woman than a female. Rose possesses intelligence comparable to humans, understands language, and can "converse." Guided by fate, she came to live in a zoo in America, where she fell in love with another gorilla and they became a couple. But ――. Her gorilla husband is shot and killed, supposedly to save a human child. She cannot forgive this. Rose decides to challenge humans in court for her husband's sake, and for her own! What is justice? What does it mean to be human? Are a gorilla's life worth less than a human's? ―― A moving epic that questions our "common sense." Rose was raised to be able to communicate with people through sign language. A gorilla capable of human-like thought. Her mind is human, but her physical abilities are that of a gorilla. Is she human or gorilla? While Rose's narrative style keeps the story from becoming too heavy, it's a work that makes you think. ...I bought it thinking it would be funny, but it wasn't!!