What Strange Paradise: A novel
難民の少年アミールと島に住む少女ヴァンナの出会いを通じて、移動、共感、無関心を描く物語。
作品情報
漂着した少年と島の少女が、危険な世界を進む。
難民の少年アミールと島に住む少女ヴァンナの出会いを通じて、移動、共感、無関心を描く物語。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Knopf
- 発売日
- 2021-07-20
- ページ数
- 256ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.26 x 2.54 x 19.89 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780525657903
- ISBN-10
- 0525657908
- 価格
- 7796 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Coming of Age
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War —a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." — The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.
OMAR EL AKKAD is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada's National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian , Le Monde , Guernica , GQ , and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War , is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , GQ , NPR, and Esquire , and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
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The displaced and the forgotten - the migrants we read about fighting for survival on a foreign shore. Finally a writer who brings forth their humanity in the form of a little boy and a young girl who rescues him from an uncertain fate. Their story is chilling yet triumphant. It is also straight from the headlines. It deserves to be read by all.
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I appreciated the “before” and “after” time line. I felt abandoned at the “now” ending. A child, dead, with a bell shaped piece of jewelry around his neck…representative of how the tragedy of refugees repeats, in an endless loop. I am to do something to stop this from replaying time and again; yes? The juxtaposition of ‘Western wealth’ through the presence of the resort hotel and the impoverished nature of the overcrowded refugee camp (unable to obtain even the basics:potable water) is a motivating call to deeply feel the impact of the widening gap between the ‘engines’ and the ‘fuel’ as the author puts it and to take some action to produce positive change. The author, I believe, makes it clear through Mohamed’s words on The Calypso, that change is very unlikely to occur. The ‘haves’ will continue to ‘have’ at the expense of the ‘have-nots’. If you allow yourself to read deeply, you will find yourself questioning much. This book is worthy of your time.
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Excellent book!
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A story from the immigrants perspective. Well written. Enjoyed the back and forth. The end however is both tragic as it is hopeful.
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If it were not for the university, I would never have purchased this book. The quality of the paper is similar to that of toilet paper. Gutenberg used a higher quality ink than the one used to print this book. Waste of money
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