Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
12人の人物がゆるやかに交差する群像小説で、黒人女性たちの経験を軸に、階級、ジェンダー、セクシュアリティ、家族の歴史が編み込まれる。現在のイギリス社会を多声的に映す。
作品情報
複数の人生が交わるたびに、社会の見えにくい線が浮かび上がる。
卒業、仕事、恋愛、家族、老いなど、さまざまな人生の局面を通じて、互いに影響し合う人物たちを描く。実験性のある文体が、広い社会の断面を軽やかに、しかし鋭く切り取る。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Grove Press, Black Cat
- 発売日
- 2019-11-05
- ページ数
- 464ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.72 x 3.3 x 20.83 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780802156983
- ISBN-10
- 0802156983
- 価格
- 3710 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Gay & Lesbian/Literature & Fiction/Fiction/Lesbian
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE “A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.” —Booker Prize Judges Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
Bernardine Evaristo is the 2019 winner of the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other , which was a national bestseller and a winner and finalist for many awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Award. Evaristo is the author of seven other books that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her writing spans verse fiction, short fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and drama. Evaristo is President of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. She received an OBE in 2020, and lives in London with her husband. Her most recent book is Manifesto: On Never Giving Up.
レビュー
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Inspiring book
I have learned a lot reading this book. As a woman, I have been amazed by the way she tells different stories and issues that anyone can understand without having experienced it yourself. It helped me broader my views on gender issues.
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良かったです
良かったです
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Suggested by a friend
This is not a book that I would choose to read for myself but a friend who shares my literary tastes suggested it and I am so glad she did. This book was like nothing I have read before...and it didn't take long to embrace the style. I am a stickler for grammar, literate writing with strong descriptive power. While some reviewers would disagree, this book hits every mark. This book is "alternative" in so many ways: alternative format, alternative lifestyles, alternative cultures, personalities, gender and sexual identities and labels. But if I learned one thing from the book (and I learned a million), it was not to use judgmental language or labels...so toss the "alternative." The author's descriptive power kept me in the book; while there was not one character with whom I could relate, she kept me fascinated by the word rich passages; one phrase could elicit so many thoughts, ideas, questions...and she offered an education for my generation which is confused about the myriad terms that describe gender and sexual identity. I only wish there had been notes to remind me of how the different characters intersect. Yes, this book is not about me or anyone like me, or about any of my friends...but it has shown me a small slice of a world that is real, it has deepened my compassion and my gratitude, and it has encouraged me to stay engaged with a modern world which can be brutal, unjust, judgmental, racist and sexist. For those of us who do not need to war against this world every day, it is healthy and useful to look at the truth of those who do. But at the end what I remember is the incredible descriptions, apt, funny, resonating, incisive - little stories in and of themselves!
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La punteggiatura non è un optional
Per quanto possa aver apprezzato l’intreccio di storie presente nel libro, l’assenza (o quasi) di punteggiatura ha reso la mia lettura davvero pesante. La punteggiatura non è un optional.
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Great novel!
One of the greatest, most powerful novels I have ever read.
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Uma montanha russa de emoções...
Um romance contemporâneo que explora temas como movimentos diaspóricos e questões de gênero e identidade ... Evaristo faz com que o seu leitor não pare de ler seu sexto livro desde que a primeira página é iniciada... envolvente, emocionante, uma montanha russa de emoções que nos faz refletir sobre o mundo atual em que vivemos... um mundo global, sem fronteiras...
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Fantastic Read
Great story - very relevant to today's socieity.
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