受賞作品新刊 - 世界・海外・国外の文学賞

2012-08-01 Corvus

Dark Eden

Chris Beckett

太陽のない惑星に閉じ込められた共同体が、世代を経て変質していく様子を描くSF小説。限られた世界の中で、言語、信仰、権力がゆっくり崩れ始める。

アーサー・C・クラーク賞

2012-08-01 Carcanet Press Ltd

P L A C E

Jorie Graham

自然が破局へ向かう世界のなかで、想像力と経験を頼りに人間の居場所を探る詩集。身体感覚や親子関係の緊張を含みながら、言葉が世界をどう支えうるかを問いかける。

フォワード詩賞

2012-08-01 NYU Press

Atlas of the Great Irish Famine

John Crowley, William J. Smyth, Mike Murphy

アイルランド大飢饉を地図や資料、解説で体系的にまとめた学術的な編纂書。歴史的事象の地理的・社会的影響を視覚的に示す重要なリファレンスとなる資料。

アイリッシュ・ブック・アワーズ

2012-07-10 Atria

Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now

Touré

ポストブラックネスという概念を軸に、黒人性をひとつの型に閉じ込めない試み。アメリカの人種意識を、対話と実例を通じて広く捉える。

アメリカン・ブック・アワード

2012-07-09 Transworld Ireland

Inside the Peloton: My Life as a Professional Cyclist

Nicolas Roche

The passionate, truthful story of life on the professional Tour by Ireland's finest cyclist and one of the rising stars of the sport. Nicolas Roche has a famous surname to all fans of cycling. The son of legendary Irish and World Champion Stephen Roche, Nicolas had to fight to make it as a professional and even harder to make his mark as his own man on this toughest of competitive sports. His rise up the ranks has been meteoric, with top 15 finishes in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in 2010, but his attitude to his chosen profession has remained undimmed. Honest, eloquent and passionate about how the cycling world should be, Nicolas has gained acclaim and a devoted fan following for his Tour diaries serialised in the Irish Independent. Now a major contender for a podium finish in a grand tour, Nicolas is ready to expand on those diaries and to tell in full the story of life in the peloton and of the remarkable events that have brought him this far. From furious spats with teammates and exhilarating races against the world's best, this is a gripping cycling adventure and sportsman's tale.

アイリッシュ・ブック・アワーズ

2012-07-03 Headline

All for You

Sheila O'Flanagan

Sheila O'Flanagan's No. 1 bestseller ALL FOR YOU is a wonderfully engaging read not to be missed by fans of Lisa Jewell and Jane Green. ' A good summer read' Heat As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn't about to repeat itself with her beloved Ken? To add fuel to the fire, her career-woman mother is returning to Dublin. Deanna has never approved of Lainey's decisions about men, and her mother's views are the last thing Lainey wants to hear now! Yet is there more to her mother than she knows? Uncovering some long-concealed family secrets, Lainey begins to reassess her life. Is the happy-ever-after she's always dreamed of really what she wants after all? What readers are saying about All For You: 'As usual, Sheila O'Flanagan never fails to entertain . I would recommend this highly ' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'A brilliant read . Well written and researched and no idea how it would end - her best book by far' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ' Unputdownable - I loved this book!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

アイリッシュ・ブック・アワーズ

2012-06-26 Vertical

Edge

Koji Suzuki

Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a cataclysm extending beyond mankind's understanding of horror as it had previously been known. The world is falling apart because things are out of joint at the quantum level, about which of course there's never been any guarantee that everything has to remain stable. Koji Suzuki returns to the genre he's most famous for after many years of "not wanting to write any more horror." As expected from Suzuki, the chills are of a more cerebral, psychological sort, arguably more unsettling and scary than the slice-and-dice gore fests that horror has become known in the U.S. Never content to simply do "Suzuki"—as it were—but rather push the envelope on what horror is in general and for which readers have come to know him, Edge borders on being cutting-edge science fiction. The author himself terms this novel, which he has worked on for some years, a work of "quantum horror."

シャーリー・ジャクソン賞