SAY NOTHING
一九七二年にベルファストで起きた Jean McConville 拉致殺害事件を起点に、北アイルランド紛争の記憶、沈黙、政治的暴力の後遺症を追うノンフィクション。個人の証言を重ね、和平後も残る傷を描く。
作品情報
語られなかった事件の記憶が、和平後の社会をなお揺さぶる。
Patrick Radden Keefe の調査ノンフィクション。Jean McConville の失踪と IRA 関係者の証言を中心に、政治的信念、秘密、裏切り、和平後の記憶を編み上げる。テレビドラマ化もされた代表作。
レビュー要約
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綿密な取材と物語性を両立させたノンフィクションとして高く評価されている。事件の謎解きにとどまらず、加害と被害の記憶が共同体に残す傷を描く点が強い。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Doubleday
- 発売日
- 2019-02-26
- ページ数
- 464ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.21 x 3.84 x 24.03 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780385521314
- ISBN-10
- 0385521316
- 価格
- 4571 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Politics & Government/Ideologies & Doctrines/Nationalism
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of Empire of Pain— a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. One of The New York Times ’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." — New York Times Book Review " Reads like a novel. . . . Keefe is . . . a master of narrative nonfiction. . . . An incredible story. "—Rolling Stone A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, and more! Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past-- Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker , an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of The Snakehead and Chatter . His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine , Slate , New York, and The New York Review of Books , among others and he is a frequent commentator on NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. Patrick received the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, for his story "A Loaded Gun," was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Good. Buy it.
Great read and told very well. Well researched and documented.
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西側世界の紛争、北アイルランド独立紛争の世界的意味を問う渾身のドキュメンタリー！
長くイギリスの属国であったアイルランドは激しい独立戦争後1921年独立。但し英国は英国人（英国からの移民：プロテスタント）の多い北アイルランドはそのまま英国領に留める。その時から北アイルランドの独立運動が始まり、第二次大戦終了後の60年代からキューバ革命・チェゲバラ等の影響を受けIRA(Irish Republican Army）による戦闘活動が活発になる。現在の世界的矛盾の多くが記述されてるが、本書評では①キリスト教と戦争、②テロリストor兵士、③言論の自由、の3点に絞り記述する。 ①キリスト教と戦争：カトリックのアイルランド人と宗派の異なる英国人には隠れた敵対心が有り独立運動に油を注いている。IRA内部のリンチで殺害する密告者へカトリック司祭が最後のミサを施す場面には驚きです。本来、平和を唱えなければならない司祭がリンチに加担し殺人の正当性を訴える。11世紀、イスラム国へ侵入した十字軍が「敬虔な信徒には神の加護が与えられ、敬虔であらば有る程、勇敢な兵士になれる」との本来イスラム教の教えがイスラムとの激しい戦闘の影響でキリスト教に根付いた観がします。②テロリストor兵士：IRAは彼らの活動を英国からの独立戦争と位置づけてます。よって市街での爆発・狙撃活動をテロ行為では無く、戦争行動としています。ロンドン市街爆破で捉えられた犯人たちはテロリストでは無く、兵士としての処罰・待遇を要求し、ハンガーストを実施し何人もが亡くなってます。最近報道された2020年のパリ爆破事件で捉えられた犯人も同様な要求をしてました。どうも「テロリストの呼称」は事件の背景を隠し、行為・結果だけを浮かび上がせる効果を持ってそうです。③言論の自由：IRA側の情報は公開・非公開を含め多いです。非公開情報は現在も続くアイルランド統一の動きを見据えてか政治的に隠避されてます。但し、その情報（書簡・録音等）が存在してる事は公開されてます。問題は英国側の警察・軍事情報の多くが非公開です。特に英国政府各機関がIRAへの実際に行った諜報・狙撃活動・破壊工作などは全く非公開。又、ウィキペディアでもIRAの政治母体シン・フェイン党は紛争が活発だった６０～８０年代の活動は記述が無く、当時の党首で紛争に大きく関わったジェリー・アダムズの記載は無し。本紛争の全体像を明かさないのは、ウィキペディアだけの現象では無く、西側メディア全体の現象です。 西洋の民主主義・言論・宗教の自由に対抗する、一党独裁の中国、旧共産主義ロシア、イスラム諸国の二極化構図の下、日本を含んだ西洋民主主義が正しいとの報道・論評にどっぷり浸かっている我々。これに対し、西洋国内・キリスト教内・民主主義国内でのアイルランド独立紛争とそこに存在する、宗教間紛争、民族紛争、報道の偏り・非公開等の矛盾。現代をより公平に観察できる渾身のドキュメンタリーです。
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A brilliant story and look at the Irish Troubles
- Say Nothing is an incredible insight into the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It explores many of the unsettling truths behind the decades long conflict that occurred in Northern Ireland. It begins by focusing on the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, and through this prism explores the lives of key figures, including Brendan Hughes, sisters Dolores and Marian Price and Gerry Adams as well as the Jean McConnell's children. The book is also a profound understanding of the human experience in these troubled times of conflict. - The book’s title is taken from the famous Heini poem “whatever you say, say nothing”. - It tells us a story of the disappearance of McConville, a widowed mother of 10 children and using this as a framework, then tells us the story of the IRA troubles. The author doesn’t judge but tries to tell their stories with impartially, so that readers can form their own opinions. I had a much greater understanding of some of these people and their stories, and it’s a very gripping and thought provoking read. I have already read the authors book “house of pain“ (that explains the opioid crisis through the manufacture and distribution of the drug OxyContin and how it came about in America and killed thousands and that 4 in every 5 heroin and opioid users in America nowadays began with a prescription of a prescribed drug to manage pain given to them by a health care professional) and he writes wonderful books of which this is definitely one of them. - The book wonderfully captures the early idolisem of youth, but as their stories and events progress, each person changes to almost becoming someone else, characters are not fixed but caught in a moment of time and then changed by the events and years as they become more layered and nuanced and as they become older and more tragic. Sometimes, you feel that there are no heroes or villains, just people whose convictions curdle into confusion, and whose wounds never fully heal. - Among the books many intriguing takeaways is a clear, demonstrable belief: staying silent isn’t the answer. I will be thinking of this book for a long time. Highly recommended.
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Nail biting and well written
Very gripping book
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Great
Great book in perfect condition.
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amazing read. I could not put it down
I left Belfast in 1973 to go to London as young woman barely 19 years old to train as a nurse like many before me. I kept abreast of the news from Northern Ireland and was always very doubtful of Gerry Adam’s and his motivations but the detail in this book is phenomenal. The death of Jean McConville and her story has fascinated me since her disappearance but I was unaware of the consequences for her children and my heart goes out to them. I am so glad to have come across this book and will recommend it to my family as an incredible historical account of the troubles and the people who were integral to the continuance of the deaths and destruction during those years.
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Five Enthusiastic Stars
Say Nothing is at once a true crime/murder mystery; history of the Troubles mainly the IRA’s side. as seen through the eyes of Delours Price, Brendan Hughes, and Gerry Adams; character study, and political thriller all rolled into one. It reads like a novel because Radden Keefe does such a fantastic job allowing the reader to get to know the main characters; there is never a dull moment in the book. The book begins with the disappearance of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of ten, on December 7, 1972. From there, the history of the Troubles comes into focus, with the violence beginning in the mid-1960s, even though as Radden Keefe points out the strife in Northern Ireland didn’t begin at that time. The IRA’s violent wing, the Provisionals, as opposed to the Stickies, emerged during that time, as the IRA had been in existence long before, with some of the Provos coming from a long line of IRA family members. Say Nothing pierces into the nature of the human condition and political power. The Troubles serve as a sort of microcosm of the general nature of political violence in the name of a cause. Does anything justify innocent people been killed in the name of a cause?
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