Many Stones
疎遠だった父に連れられ、妹を殺された南アフリカへ向かうベリーは、怒りと喪失を抱えたまま、家族の断絶と和解の可能性に向き合う。短い分量で、悲しみと再接続を凝縮した物語。
作品情報
石を胸に抱えた少女が、失われたものの重さを抱えて旅をする。
殺された妹の記憶を抱く少女が、疎遠な父とともに南アフリカへ向かい、家族の断絶と向き合う。抑制された筆致で、悲しみが少しずつ再配置される過程を描く。
レビュー要約
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感情を抑えた語りの中に、家族の傷と再接続の手触りがあると評価される。短い物語の中で、悲しみの輪郭が丁寧に立ち上がる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Front Street
- 発売日
- 2000-11-30
- ページ数
- 158ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.34 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781886910553
- ISBN-10
- 1886910553
- 価格
- 4794 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Children's Books
When Berry's sister is murdered while working as a school volunteer in Capetown, she journeys with her father to attend her memorial service and soon comes to learn a great deal about the political problems of South Africa through her personal experiences with its countrymen. 10,000 first printing.
National Book Award Finalist Carolyn Coman is the author of Tell Me Everything, What Jamie Saw, and Bee and Jacky. What Jamie Saw received a 1996 John Newbery Honor Award from the American Library Association and was also named a National Book Award Finalist. She has two children and lives in New Hampshire.
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Another outstanding book by Coman. (I've read "What Jamie Saw" and "Tell Me Everything" as well.) This novel deals with the "new" South Africa, something I know about because I lived in South Africa from 1995 to 1998, during the beginning of democracy in a country torn apart by apartheid. Coman obviously has been to South Africa and spent some time there because all of her observations are right on the money: the friendly but blatant racism of some (not all) whites; the expressionless faces of most blacks; the descriptions of Jo'burg, Cape Town and Kruger Park. Her observations were uncanny. Then Coman compares the troubled main character, Berry, with South Africa--a difficult feat for any writer, but Coman pulls it off skillfully. The ending packs a punch with Berry stating her anger at her sister's death and recognizing the pain that many South Africans still carry from the apartheid years. What a book! I do recommend it only for older readers because some profanity is used as well as a reference to Berry's ongoing love affair with a "typical" American teenager.
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I read this with a student for a summer reading product, and we both found it to be boring. I would not recommend this book at all. I did not feel there was sufficient character development or much of a plot. It was difficult to get through.
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My granddaughter loved it.
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