作品情報

子どもの遊びの記憶が、独裁の恐怖をあとから照らし出す。

大人になった同級生たちは、手紙、声、ゲーム、学校行事の記憶を通して、かつて姿を消した少女を思い出す。個人的な喪失は、公式の歴史が消し去ろうとする暴力の痕跡へつながる。

書籍情報

出版社

Graywolf Press

発売日

2019-11-05

ページ数

96ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.08 x 0.69 x 20.09 cm

ISBN-13

9781644450079

ISBN-10

1644450070

価格

3408 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella's father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends--from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme--were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the "ghostly green bullets" they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolaño's 2666 , for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives . She lives in New York.

関連する文学賞

• ナショナル・ブック賞（翻訳文学） 第2回（2019年） ・Longlisted