Little Eve
スコットランドの孤島で共同体に育てられた少女エヴとディナの関係を軸に、閉鎖社会の暴力と支配、そして外の世界への渇望を描く。ゴシックな空気の中に、信仰と支配の歪みがにじむ小説。
作品情報
閉じた共同体の中で、友情と支配が不穏に絡み合う。
『Little Eve』は、孤立した島の共同体で育ったエヴとディナの視点から、カルト的な秩序と暴力の気配を少しずつ明らかにしていく。おとぎ話のような外観を持ちながら、閉鎖された関係の中で生まれる恐怖と欲望を鋭く描き出す。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 発売日
- 2018-04-19
- ページ数
- 288ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14 x 2 x 21.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780297609681
- ISBN-10
- 0297609688
- 価格
- 8938 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Horror
Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, never parted day or night. They are raised among the Children, a commune of strays and orphans ruled by Uncle, the mysterious patriarch. All they know is the grey Isle of Altnaharra which sits in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's vision. She is untroubled save by her dreams; of soft arms and a woman singing. Dinah longs for something other. But the world is at war and cannot be kept at bay. As the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, Eve's faith and sanity fracture. In a great storm, in the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the locals discover a devastating scene. Eve and Dinah's stories of what really happened that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent?
CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA from the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, RAWBLOOD, won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and was selected as a Winter 2016 Fresh Talent title by WHSmith. RAWBLOOD is published in the US and Canada as THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD (Sourcebooks, 2017). She lives in London and Devon.
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This book is everything you would expect from a Catriona Ward story! Great twists and turns!
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Me he debatido todo el libro entre seguir o dejarlo, aunque hacia la parte final mejora, para mi gusto. En general se me ha hecho un poco pesado, pero el trasfondo duro de la historia me ha parecido que merecía la pena
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On New Year’s Day 1921 on a remote Scottish island in a circle of stones lie ritually arranged mutilated remains. Only Dinah survives and she testifies that Eve killed them all and drowned escaping. This is their story. If you like stories about cults read this, if you enjoy descriptive prose read this, if you enjoy gothic literature read this, if the wildness of the natural world enthrals you read this, if words are the seeds of your imagination plant this book in your brain. This is so rich and beautiful, such evocative and exquisite storytelling. It is a haunting and claustrophobic tale of delusion, a dark labyrinth with unexpected turns and a chilling atmosphere of fear and paranoia throughout. It is so good. Go into it blind, the synopsis is enough. This book is enchanting and devastating, I cannot wait to read it again. This goes straight into my best reads this year, 5 stars
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Intricate, wonderfully written horror story. The plot makes you question every bit, BUT not by author withholding the information, but by reader travelling together with protagonist. At the end all bits marvelously fit together. Like a pure magic. One of my favorite horrors forever.
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This is my third Catriona Ward novel, and I am finding them harder and harder to review. Little Eve is told end to beginning. So, you see the fallout of what happened. Then, we are shown how it happened. This plot device worked very well for this novel. I really enjoy Ward's writing style. It is very whimsical, but it is still able to capture the eeriness of the story. My biggest fault with this novel is that the chapter lengths are LONG. Now, I don't mind a long chapter here and there, but it was like trying to pack 3 years of content into one chapter. So, while time is a concept, it got lost along the way. After finding Little Eve, I'm still unsure how to collect my thoughts. I'm feel like this is Ward's style.
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