作品情報

太平洋戦線の複数の人生を通して戦争の影を描く短編集。

太平洋戦線に切り取られた複数の物語を通して、戦争が個人の選択や記憶に残す傷を描き出す。寓話性と歴史性が交差する作品集である。

書籍情報

出版社

Grove Press

発売日

2007-06-10

ページ数

224ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 1.65 x 20.83 cm

ISBN-13

9780802143136

ISBN-10

080214313X

価格

4932 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction.

関連する文学賞

• PEN/Faulkner賞（フィクション部門） 第23回（2003年） ・Winner