作品情報

老いと喪失のただ中で、何度もやり直しの気配が立ち上がる。

退職を目前にした Mary と Pete は、引っ越し先の退職者向けコミュニティを前にしながら、四十年前に失った息子 Will の記憶、早くに亡くなった Mary の姉、そして老いゆく身体の変化に向き合う。親密な会話と穏やかなユーモアを通して、喪失とケア、そしてこれからの生き方が静かに交差する。

書籍情報

出版社

Te Herenga Waka Univ Pr

発売日

2025-03-14

ページ数

311ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm

ISBN-13

9781776922086

ISBN-10

1776922085

価格

4849 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary

It’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren’t falling apart, but they’re watching each other – Pete with his tachcychardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee. Selling their beloved house should be a clean break, but it’s as if the people they have lost keep returning to ask new things of them. A local detective calls with new information about the case of their son, Will, who was killed in an accident forty years before. Mary finds herself drawn to consider her older sister’s shortened life. Pete is increasingly haunted by memories of his late mother, who developed delirium and never recovered. An emotionally powerful novel about families and ageing, Delirious dramatises the questions we will all face, if we’re lucky, or unlucky, enough. How to care for others? How to meet the new versions of ourselves who might arrive? How to cope? Delirious is also about the surprising ways second chances come around.

Damien Wilkins is the author of fourteen books, most recently Aspiring, winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award in 2020. His first novel, The Miserables, won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 1994, and he has been long-listed three times for the Dublin Literary Award. He received a Whiting Writers’ Award from the Whiting Foundation, New York, in 1992, and an Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Award in 2013. He is a professor at Te Herenga Waka— Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters Te Putahi Tui Auaha o Te Ao.

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