Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat
中国からシャムへ渡った一族の数世代にわたる歴史をたどりながら、家族の秘密とタイの近代史が複雑に絡み合う。中国系移民の記憶を、魔術的な語り口で描く大河小説。
作品情報
家族の呪いと国家の歴史が、長い時間の中で重なり合う。
『Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat』は、タイへ渡った華人一族の暮らしを軸に、愛情、裏切り、野心が世代を超えてどのように形を変えるかを描く。個人の運命と国の歴史が離れがたく結びついていることを、濃密な家族小説として示す。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- River Books
- 発売日
- 2022-05-20
- ページ数
- 330ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.2 x 1.78 x 21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786164510609
- ISBN-10
- 6164510600
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in Siam, has risen to become a rice-trading tycoon in Bangkok’s Chinatown, married a former palace cook and built a large family in the town of Pad Riew. Haunted by the dream of returning to his true home in China, Tong, along with his wife and their five children, are swept along by the torrents of history as World War II breakout and China turns red, while the military strongman in Thailand act out the interminable cycle of power struggle, rebellion and coup d’état. Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat , the award-winning second novel by Veerapon Nitiprapha, is a generations-spanning family saga that explores the roots of the Chinese diaspora in Siam and how the tragedy of ruined love, maternal betrayal and futile ambition shape the lives of Tong’s clan members, each of them hounded by their own ghosts and burdened by their own sins. All of this is played out against the backdrop of Siam’s mid-century social and political history, the most chaotic period the formation of the nation.
レビュー
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A lot of words, not much story.