The Whale House and Other Stories
トリニダードの社会のひずみを背景に、喪失や暴力、家族の秘密を静かな筆致で浮かび上がらせる短編。日常のなかに潜む不穏さが、地域の歴史や共同体の感覚とともに立ち上がる。
作品情報
日常の静けさの下で、失われたものと隠されたものがゆっくり姿を現す。
『The Whale House』は 2013 年 Commonwealth Short Story Prize のカリブ地域受賞作で、後に Peepal Tree Press の短編集『The Whale House and other stories』に収録された。出版社公式ページでは収録作として明記され、ISBN 9781845232498 が確認できる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
- 発売日
- 2015-07-01
- ページ数
- 171ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.34 x 1.78 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781845232498
- ISBN-10
- 9781845232498
- 価格
- 2978 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
A boy is killed on a government minister&;s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country&;s lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament. Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, which range across the country&;s different ethnic communities, across rural and urban settings, from locals and expatriates to the moneyed elite and the poor scrabbling for survival. What ties the collection together is Sharon Millar&;s achievement of a distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for both generous humor and the possibility of redemption.
Sharon Millar is the recipient of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Small Axe Short Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Granta Online , the Manchester Review , and Small Axe , and was also featured in the anthology Pepperpot: The Best New Stories from the Caribbean .
レビュー
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Life in an industrialized Caribbean island, good and bad, as told through a collection of short stories.
Enjoyable reading for anyone who wants to sample authentic flavours of various aspects of West Indian society. The stories paint vivid images of lifestyles and landscapes in the Caribbean.
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I enjoyed reading this book - Millar brings out the various ...
I enjoyed reading this book - Millar brings out the various issues in Trinidad's social tumult very cleverly. I rate it 9 out of 10!! Katherine Lawrence
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Tropical Gothic
Sharon Millar is an exciting new voice from the Caribbean. Her writing is crisp and clean, layered with nuance and detail, a kind of tropical Gothic. Highly recommend.
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Quite intriguing
This book was quite intriguing, kept you expecting more in each story. I look forward to more of this author's work.
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