受賞作品新刊 - 世界・海外・国外の文学賞

2006-09-27 BiblioBazaar

Jean Christophe: in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House

Romain Rolland

音楽家ジャン・クリストフの生涯を追う長大な連作小説。芸術への情熱、友情、政治意識が重なり、ひとりの人物の成長譚を超えた広がりを持つ。

ノーベル文学賞

2006-09-26 Knopf

The Road (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Cormac McCarthy

焼き尽くされたアメリカを父と息子が旅する、愛と生存をめぐる黙示録的な小説。

ピューリッツァー賞

2006-09-19 Knopf

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

イラク戦争後のグリーンゾーンを、現地で働いた記者の視点から描くルポルタージュ。安全地帯の内部にある混乱と官僚制、現実との断絶が生々しく伝わる。

ベイリー・ギフォード賞（ノンフィクション）

2006-09-19 HarperCollins

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Daniel Mendelsohn

Soon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust , premiering on PBS September 18 th A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist “A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.”—Michael Chabon In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust—an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.

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