Lioness: Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
富裕層の家庭に入り込んだテレーゼが、夫の不正疑惑と隣人クレアとの出会いをきっかけに、自分が何に守られ、何を見ないまま生きてきたのかを問い直す。階級、結婚、女性の怒りを鋭く切り取る小説。
作品情報
特権の居心地のよさが揺らぎ始めたとき、テレーゼは自分の選択を見直し始める。
巨大な不動産帝国の一族に嫁ぎ、贅沢な暮らしに慣れたテレーゼは、夫の開発事業をめぐる不正疑惑と、自由と本音を体現する隣人クレアによって揺さぶられる。女性の欲望、階級意識、結婚生活のひずみを、皮肉と観察眼で切り取る。
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鋭い階級描写と中年以降の女性の欲望や怒りを掘り下げる点は高く評価されている。一方で、人物の距離感や展開の強さに好みが分かれるという反応もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Bloomsbury Circus
- 発売日
- 2023-07-06
- ページ数
- 288ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.6 x 3 x 23.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781526660664
- ISBN-10
- 1526660660
- 価格
- 4854 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Women's Fiction/Contemporary Women
** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS** 'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes ‘This novel is perfection’ Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood… This is an excellent novel’ The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes. In the flat below Therese, something else is brewing. Her neighbour Claire believes she's discovered the secret to living with freedom and authenticity, freeing herself from the mundanity of domesticity. Therese finds herself enchanted by the lure of the permissive zone Claire creates in her apartment – a place of ecstatic release. All too quickly, Therese is forced to confront herself and her choices – just how did she become this person? And what exactly should she do about it? ‘A thoughtful, intelligent novel about one woman’s search for more meaning’ Good Housekeeping
Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name , and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House , and the original play The Made . She lives in New Zealand.
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fantastic.
Easy to read and yet incredibly thought provoking. I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended and I still I need five more words to submit this!
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Monotonous
I did not finish this novel so to be fair it might have improved if I'd persisted for longer. However, although Emily Perkins is a talented writer, i find her plots mostly wanting. This effort dragged on and on with tedious family stuff that became a big yawn, hence my closing the book and deleting it from my kindle library.
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Family tensions explored with flair
The complexities and responsibilities of being an adored second wife and a younger stepmother build and build to a climax. Great writing.
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Deft, clever, gripping
Could not put this down until finished! The story kept me glued to my Kindle. So many clever, understated bits to enjoy. And it wasn't until towards the end that I realised that the clue to it all was at the very beginning. Marvellously crafted story.
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quick read on holiday
I am male, might have missed some nuances. Easy to read. Many lives might actually be like this. Emotional not action.
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