オオカミのようにやさしく (世界の青春ノベルズ)
Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.
Work Information
Wolves never desert their families — so why did her father leave?
Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal. A young adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford University Press in 1990 (first UK edition 140 pages). US edition published by Holiday House in 1991. The Japanese translation by Keiko Aoumi was published by Iwanami Shoten in 1994 as part of the Sekai no Seishun Novels series (250 pages). A suspenseful story of a girl confronting her fractured family and her father's dark secret, interwoven with wolf and Red Riding Hood motifs.
Review Summaries
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Readers frequently praise the eerie atmosphere and effective wolf symbolism, while many note the ending feels rushed after a lengthy build-up. Mixed reception overall, with strong endorsement from educators who use it as classroom reading.
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LoveReading4Kids recommends it as a brilliantly crafted Carnegie Medal winner that interweaves a spine-chilling contemporary thriller with the story of Red Riding Hood, praising how Cassy draws on the fairy tale to cope with the dangerous uncertainties of her own life.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 岩波書店
- Published
- 1994-07-07
- Pages
- 250 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784001155327
- ISBN-10
- 400115532X
- Price
- 106 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/評論・文学研究/外国文学研究/英米文学
父母が離婚し，祖母と暮らす13歳のキャシー．母は，テロ活動のために家族を捨てた父のことを「領土のために闘うオオカミのような人」だと言うのだが……崩壊した家庭のなかで真の自分を求める少女．