Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Classics of Asian American Literature)
フィリピン系移民の孤独、郷里への思い、新しい土地での適応を、16編の短編で描く短編集。個々の物語が、家族や記憶、移動の感覚を静かに重ねる。
作品情報
故郷の匂いをたどることで、移民の時間が浮かび上がる。
『Scent of Apples』は、フィリピン人移民とその家族をめぐる 16 編の物語を収め、フィリピンとアメリカのあいだを行き来する感覚を描く。Santos にとって米国で刊行された唯一の書籍としても知られる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of Washington Pr
- 発売日
- 2015-07-25
- ページ数
- 178ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.72 x 1.78 x 21.34 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780295995113
- ISBN-10
- 9780295995113
- 価格
- 5357 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. Replaces ISBN 9780295956954
Bienvenido N. Santos (19111996) first came to the United States in 1941 as a government pensionado (scholar) at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. During World War II he served the Philippine government from exile in Washington, DC, before returning to the Philippines in 1946. He came back to the United States in 1958 and attended the University of Iowas Writers Workshop. In 1965 he received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature from the Philippine government.
レビュー
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Stories of Filipinos in America
A bit underrated, undeservedly, among Filipino writers in English, Bienvenido Santos in this collection has a low-key but confident narrative voice, deceptively simple and almost refreshingly understated. Beautiful stories about people who happen to be no longer where they may have started.
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Excellent Read!
I think that it's enough to say that I will be looking for more work from this author. His writing is excellent and thought-provoking.
関連する文学賞
- アメリカン・ブック・アワード 第2回（1981年） ・Winner