Four Soldiers
4人の兵士が戦後の冬をともに過ごす、静けさと不安をたたえた短い長編。
作品情報
4人の兵士が戦後の冬をともに過ごす、静けさと不安をたたえた短い長編。
4人の兵士が戦後の冬をともに過ごす、静けさと不安をたたえた短い長編。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Granta Books
- 発売日
- 2019-06-06
- ページ数
- 160ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.9 x 0.9 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781846276514
- ISBN-10
- 1846276519
- 価格
- 2504 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a classic of writing about the human condition... A small miracle' Hilary Mantel 1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting for the inevitable resumption of violence. Tightly focused and simply told, this is a story of friendship and the fragments of happiness that can illuminate the darkness of war.
HUBERT MINGARELLI is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. His book Quatre soldats ([Four Soldiers], Le Seuil, 2003) won the Prix Médicis. He lives in Grenoble. A Meal in Winter was shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Sam Taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist. His translations include the award-winning French novel, HHhH by Laurent Binet. His novels have reached an international audience: The Republic of Trees (Faber, 2005) was translated into Italian, German, Korean and Hungarian and was turned into the film All Good Children (2010); The Island at the End of the World (2009) was translated into French and Turkish and a film is in development. He has written for many newspapers and magazine,s including The Guardian , Financial Times , Daily Telegraph , Vogue and Esquire, and also worked for 10 years as an editor and sub-editor at The Observer .
レビュー
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This little book affected me deeply. So gentle, so sad. I cried. In its innocence, it summed up the unknowing tragedy of war, and the meaning of close friendship. Its characters simply buffeted about by the workings of forces they have no understanding or knowledge of. It's a book I'll read again and again.
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A delightful book that I fortunately discovered and was rewarded with a wonderful story that is set during the Russian revolution - I guess you’d call this slim novel a fable or a parable but in any event it was a welcome addition to my ever increasing pandemic reading catalog
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One of the best books I’ve read this year!
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Excelent
関連する文学賞
- メディシス賞 第48回（2003年 第3回開催） ・Winner