ゴースト・カントリー (ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫) [文庫]

Three very different homeless women battle with a Chicago hotel to earn the right to live and worship in its carpark. Then Starr appears, enigmatic, repellent to some, erotic to others, and miracles start to happen. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

かつての名声を捨てきれず、酒に溺れる女性オペラ歌手。厳格な祖父と優秀な姉にコンプレックスを感じ、家を飛びだした少女。医療現場の矛盾に苦悩する青年医師。そして、塀の割れ目から聖母マリアが血の涙を流していると主張するホームレスの女性―まったく境遇の違う四人の男女が出会う時シカゴの街を優しい魔法が包みこむ…女探偵V・I・ウォーショースキー・シリーズの人気作家が新境地を拓いた、愛と感動の物語。

「奇跡を信じる勇気をください」 アル中の元歌姫、家出したティーンエイジャー、青年医師など、境遇の違う男女が、不思議な力を持つホームレスに出会うとき、シカゴの街を大きな感動で包み込む奇跡が起きる…。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Sara Paretsky boldly strays from her widely popular V.I. Warshawski mystery series--note to fans: caveat emptor--and trades the gritty Chicago detective in for a pair of debutante sisters, Mara and Harriet Stonds. The poor little rich girls (grand pa-pa Stonds was a famous neurosurgeon) are blessed with every material comfort, but are sadly lacking in a sound karma-credit plan. Treated like a second-class citizen by her grandfather, Mara forever plays the underdog to "golden" Harriet, an irritatingly perfect girl, reminiscent of "Nellie" from Little House on the Prairie. In a bizarre chain of events, the sisters see the errors of their ways when they become entangled in a complex caper involving a washed-up, drunken opera singer, a posse of homeless women, a soothsayer, a kindly psychotherapist and a selection of twisted clergymen. Abstract and slightly surreal at times, Ghost Country might seem arduous to the tried and true Paretsky fan: it's a far cry from her no-nonsense, cut-and-dried thrillers. However, this atypical character study might prove to be a refreshing pit stop for those with a lot of mystery mileage under their belts; it's a colorful detour from the predictable puzzlers. --Rebekah Warren
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Sara Paretsky's genius made Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski a household name. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores an unseen corner of the city she loves. In Ghost Country she has written a parable for the millennium, a powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath Chicago's shadowy streets--and of the woman whose mysterious appearance changes all of their lives forever.

They come from different worlds and meet at a time of crisis for all of them. Luisa, a drunken diva fallen on hard times, discovers on Chicago's streets a drama greater than any she has experienced onstage. Madeleine, a homeless woman, sees the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a concrete wall beneath a luxury hotel. Mara, a rebellious adolescent cast out by her wealthy grandfather, becomes the catalyst for a war between the haves and have-nots as she searches among society's castoffs for the mother she never knew.

As the three women fight for their right to live and worship beneath the hotel, they find an ally in Hector Tammuz, an idealistic young psychiatrist risking his career to treat the homeless regardless of the cost. Tensions in the city are escalating when a mysterious woman appears during a violent storm. Erotic to some, repellent to others, she never speaks; the street people call her Starr. And as she slowly transforms their lives, miracles begin to happen in a city completely unprepared for the outcome.

In this extraordinary novel, Sara Paretsky gives voice to the dispossessed, to men and women struggling to bury the ghosts of the past, fighting for their lives in a world hungry for miracles, terrified of change. A magical, unforgettable story of myth and madness, hope and revelation, Ghost Country is Sara Paretsky's most eloquent and ambitious work yet.
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Sara Paretsky lives in Chicago with her husband and their golden retriever. She is the author of eight V.I. Warshawski novels, a short story collection, Windy City Blues, and the editor of A Woman's Eye and Women on the Case.
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。