The President and the Frog: A novel
無名のラテンアメリカの元大統領が、幽閉中に語り合った一匹のカエルとの記憶を手がかりに、民主主義、尊厳、希望を回想する寓話的長編。
作品情報
幽閉と一匹のカエルが、政治と希望の寓話になる。
無名のラテンアメリカの元大統領が、幽閉中に語り合った一匹のカエルとの記憶を手がかりに、民主主義、尊厳、希望を回想する寓話的長編。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Knopf
- 発売日
- 2021-08-03
- ページ数
- 224ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.09 x 2.18 x 21.64 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780593318416
- ISBN-10
- 0593318412
- 価格
- 6871 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Political
A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe ), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras . “In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog ... De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man’s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.” — The New York Times Book Review At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: while held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back—a loud-mouth frog. As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream.
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS is the author of five novels, including The President of the Frog , a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, as well as Cantoras , winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Baldwin-Emerson Fellowship, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, and numerous other honors. An author of Uruguayan origins, she teaches at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California, with her wife and two children.
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I knew very little about President Pepe Mujica, only that he was a very humble person, and that he helped transform Uruguay into a more progressive country. While reading this book I was inspired to learn more about him, his life and legacy, and I watched a documentary filmed at the end of his presidency. My admiration for him only grew. This novel is interesting in that it is based on Mujica's life, so it is somewhat biographical, but De Robertis also imagines his mental state and what kept him going during the long and horrific years while he was imprisoned. Very good read.
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I was totally absorbed by the infinite wisdom and care for humanity that Pepe Mujica exhibited all throughout his conversations with the young reporter… a man that had died a thousand times… but came back to tell his story….
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I loved this book. It’s different again from her other books but thought provoking as her books always are. For anyone who has been involved in radical politics and has visions of a better world, I believe this book will resonate with you. Beautifully written as always. I look forward to her next book.
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I didn't have any expectations and it's a good thing. This fable is philosophical, gritty, sweet and harsh. I rarely reread a book but I can imagine making this an annual ritual. Just read it, no matter what.
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A fascinating exploration of how a revolutionary survives years of solitary madness. His talks with a frog in prison and a reporter after his presidency form a poignant counterpoint.
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