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骨と沈黙 (ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫 ヒ 4-1)
早川書房

骨と沈黙 (ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫 ヒ 4-1)

レジナルド ヒル, Reginald Hill, 秋津 知子

Winner of the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger Award. Yorkshire police superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a man pointing a gun at a woman through his kitchen window, but when he arrives on the scene, the woman is dead and both male suspects insist she was trying to shoot herself. Meanwhile, Pascoe receives anonymous letters from a woman predicting her own suicide, and Dalziel is persuaded to play God in a large outdoor production of the medieval York Mystery plays. The three story threads intertwine in the eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel.

CWA KAA Gold Dagger
Headcrash
Grand Central Publishing

Headcrash

Bruce Bethke

Bruce Bethke’s Headcrash won the award. Through a man who disappears into virtual space under corporate pressure, it turns cyberpunk into satire.

Philip K. Dick Award
Fairyland
Gollancz

Fairyland

Paul McAuley

In a near-future Europe, gene-hacker Alex Sharkey has created a new life form: fairies - genetically-altered dolls with human intelligence. As the fairies develop their own societies, it become apparent that one group has sinister intentions, and Sharkey must try and put an end to their plans.

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Zoology
Penguin Books Ltd

Zoology

Sheridan Keith

Sheridan Keith’s novel Zoology won the prize. It follows Stephen and the women in his life, using their relationships to explore desire and self-understanding.

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Road from Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Powerful Memoir of Surviving the Armenian Genocide
Greenwillow Books

The Road from Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Powerful Memoir of Surviving the Armenian Genocide

David Kherdian

The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope, earlier titled The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, is a non-fiction book written by David Kherdian, originally published in 1979. It is based on the life of the author's mother, Veron Dumehjian (1907-1981), who survived the Armenian genocide. During the deportations, the rest of her immediate family died. She returned to her native town, only to be displaced again by the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22). After settling in Smyrna, she was forced to flee once more due to the Great Fire of Smyrna. Veron escaped to ultimately settle in the United States. The book is widely read by middle school children throughout the U.S. and has been published throughout Europe. It has received a number of prestigious awards.

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Love Enter
Random House Value Publishing

Love Enter

Paul Kafka

"Remember what it was like to fall in love - wildly, hopelessly in love - for the first time? Paul Kafka's gloriously romantic debut novel recaptures love's first days in a sparkling, bittersweet tale of awakening and longing.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Nil Nil
Faber & Faber

Nil Nil

Don Paterson

Nil Nil is a poetry collection that moves through language, absence, and play and emptiness. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.

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