受賞作品新刊 - 世界・海外・国外の文学賞

2015-03-10 Dial Books

Roller Girl: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)

Victoria Jamieson

親友との関係が変化する中で、主人公がローラーダービーに挑戦して自分の道を切り開く成長物語。スポーツを通じた自信の回復と、友情の再定義が軸にある。

ジョン・ニューベリー・メダル（ニューベリー賞）

2015-03-05 Faber & Faber

Fire Songs

David Harsent

火、殉教、戦争、喪失のイメージを束ねた詩集で、緊張感のある抒情が全体を支える。

T. S. エリオット賞

2015-03-03 St. Martins Press-3PL

In the Light of What We Know

Zia Haider Rahman

Zia Haider Rahman の長編小説。知性と権力、移民経験、戦争の記憶が複数の視点で交差する。

ジェームズ・テイト・ブラック記念賞

2015-03-03 Farrar Straus & Giroux

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

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