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WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK.
It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.
Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:
It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.
The story starts there, but the book doesn't.
And it's what happens afterward that is most important.
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
著者について
CHRIS CLEAVE is the author of Incendiary and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee. He lives with his wife and three children in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. Visit www.chriscleave.com.
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5 人中、3人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:ペーパーバック
最初の章は、Little Beeと自分を呼ぶ16歳の少女の語りから始まる。
彼女はナイジェリアのビーチから、自分を追う者たちから逃れるため、
命からがら舟に乗りこみイングランドに逃げてきた少女。
難民センターに2年間収容されていたが、ある朝、不意に釈放される。
彼女はナイジェリアのビーチで会ったイギリス人夫婦の家を訪ねる…
次の章は、イギリス人夫婦の妻にあたるSarahの語り。
彼女はファッション雑誌の編集長。4歳の息子を持ち、夫はタイムのライター。
彼女は手の指を、一本失った。ナイジェリアのビーチで。
彼女の4歳の息子は、バットマンのコスチュームをずっと着たまま。ライターの夫は、ひどい鬱に
さいなまれている。
そしてそれらには、たくさんの理由があり、彼らの選択があった。
ある日、そこにLittle Beeが現れる…
物語はそんなふうにして始まります。
話はイングランドが舞台であり、またナイジェリアが舞台にもなります。
語りはBeeとSarahが交互に進めていきます。それぞれのキャラクターを見事に表現する語りが、
素晴らしいです。
テーマは、何だろう…？
多くの悲劇を抱えた、Little Bee。BeeとSarahが下していく、さまざまな、
大きすぎる決断。生きていくことの、すさまじさと素晴らしさ。
Little Beeは、彼女の本名ではありません。
最後の方に、彼女の本名が明かされます。
そして彼女は言います。「平和っていうのは、自分の本当の名前が言える時のことよ」と。
この言葉が、一番胸にしみました…
読んでいる間中苦しいけれど、読む価値のある物語です。
彼女はナイジェリアのビーチから、自分を追う者たちから逃れるため、
命からがら舟に乗りこみイングランドに逃げてきた少女。
難民センターに2年間収容されていたが、ある朝、不意に釈放される。
彼女はナイジェリアのビーチで会ったイギリス人夫婦の家を訪ねる…
次の章は、イギリス人夫婦の妻にあたるSarahの語り。
彼女はファッション雑誌の編集長。4歳の息子を持ち、夫はタイムのライター。
彼女は手の指を、一本失った。ナイジェリアのビーチで。
彼女の4歳の息子は、バットマンのコスチュームをずっと着たまま。ライターの夫は、ひどい鬱に
さいなまれている。
そしてそれらには、たくさんの理由があり、彼らの選択があった。
ある日、そこにLittle Beeが現れる…
物語はそんなふうにして始まります。
話はイングランドが舞台であり、またナイジェリアが舞台にもなります。
語りはBeeとSarahが交互に進めていきます。それぞれのキャラクターを見事に表現する語りが、
素晴らしいです。
テーマは、何だろう…？
多くの悲劇を抱えた、Little Bee。BeeとSarahが下していく、さまざまな、
大きすぎる決断。生きていくことの、すさまじさと素晴らしさ。
Little Beeは、彼女の本名ではありません。
最後の方に、彼女の本名が明かされます。
そして彼女は言います。「平和っていうのは、自分の本当の名前が言える時のことよ」と。
この言葉が、一番胸にしみました…
読んでいる間中苦しいけれど、読む価値のある物語です。
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Amazon.com:
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1,639 人中、1,617人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
For heaven's sake ignore the blurb!
2009/5/14
形式:ハードカバー|Amazon Vine™ レビュー
(詳しくはこちら)
Honestly I don't know what people are thinking when they market books anymore. The blurb on this book would have you believe that it's not only a laugh riot -- except for the beach scene which is "horrific" -- but that it's so remarkably written and in some way so easy to spoil that it all but swears the reader to a code of silence. And in fact, it's none of those things. All those marketing ploys actually do a disservice to an excellent book and if I were the author, I'd hate it that my work was being so misrepresented.
Briefly, "Little Bee" is about a young Nigerian refugee whose very existence changes the lives of a group of English citizens in dramatic ways. It's a good story and well-written but it would be silly of me to say that I don't want to tell you more because I don't want to spoil it for you. That would feel like me saying "I have NO idea what this is about."
It's about sadness. Really. It's not funny, except perhaps in small details where you might find yourself smiling ruefully. It's a sad book filled with sad and often thoughtless people. It's about how we cover our sadness with layers of so-called civilization, wrap our fears in popular culture, and never ever have the opportunity to face any of it and learn to rise above. Little Bee knows how to rise above. She's known how to do it her whole life because there's nowhere to hide in her country. Poverty, abuse and death are common where she is from, and if you don't want them to destroy you, they must be transcended.
I read the first two chapters just waiting for the comedy to begin. I waited for the beach scene with a measure of anxiety. I waited for some enormous surprise which I would long to tell others, but would keep to myself out of a sense of reader's decency. And each time, I found the truth to be something quite different. I'm actually happy about that because, for me at least, it means I was reading a book that might not be dismissed in a year or even a month as some pop cultural flash. It's a book which should make you think about the world and your place in it, and about what we owe to one another as human beings on this increasingly small, spinning globe.
I found it profoundly moving.
Briefly, "Little Bee" is about a young Nigerian refugee whose very existence changes the lives of a group of English citizens in dramatic ways. It's a good story and well-written but it would be silly of me to say that I don't want to tell you more because I don't want to spoil it for you. That would feel like me saying "I have NO idea what this is about."
It's about sadness. Really. It's not funny, except perhaps in small details where you might find yourself smiling ruefully. It's a sad book filled with sad and often thoughtless people. It's about how we cover our sadness with layers of so-called civilization, wrap our fears in popular culture, and never ever have the opportunity to face any of it and learn to rise above. Little Bee knows how to rise above. She's known how to do it her whole life because there's nowhere to hide in her country. Poverty, abuse and death are common where she is from, and if you don't want them to destroy you, they must be transcended.
I read the first two chapters just waiting for the comedy to begin. I waited for the beach scene with a measure of anxiety. I waited for some enormous surprise which I would long to tell others, but would keep to myself out of a sense of reader's decency. And each time, I found the truth to be something quite different. I'm actually happy about that because, for me at least, it means I was reading a book that might not be dismissed in a year or even a month as some pop cultural flash. It's a book which should make you think about the world and your place in it, and about what we owe to one another as human beings on this increasingly small, spinning globe.
I found it profoundly moving.
189 人中、180人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Other Hand
2009/3/1
形式:ハードカバー
I picked up the book "The Other Hand" by Chris Cleave on a layover at Heathrow airport because I had finished my previous book. I was not familiar with the author and the admitedly somewhat gimmicky jacket summary intrigued me. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into. It turns out that this book (titled "Little Bee" in the US after the name of the main character) is one of the most engaging books I've read in some time.
The story unfolds quietly giving you snapshots into the lives of the different characters but without letting you in on the full plot. Some characters you barely get to admire before you leave behind as Little Bee moves on, others develop as the story goes (Sarah, for instance).
I found both the premise and the characters to be engaging and am somewhat surprised by some negative reviews melting the story down to a UK/Nigeria Colonial War sort or moral. If that is all you take from this book then you have missed it, entirely. You've missed Sarah and her son, you've missed Yevette from Jamaica and the girl with no name... and you've certainly missed Little Bee.
Again, fantastic book that I recommend to anyone looking for well-crafted prose with a personality.
The story unfolds quietly giving you snapshots into the lives of the different characters but without letting you in on the full plot. Some characters you barely get to admire before you leave behind as Little Bee moves on, others develop as the story goes (Sarah, for instance).
I found both the premise and the characters to be engaging and am somewhat surprised by some negative reviews melting the story down to a UK/Nigeria Colonial War sort or moral. If that is all you take from this book then you have missed it, entirely. You've missed Sarah and her son, you've missed Yevette from Jamaica and the girl with no name... and you've certainly missed Little Bee.
Again, fantastic book that I recommend to anyone looking for well-crafted prose with a personality.
332 人中、311人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
What Happened on the Beach?!
2009/1/3
形式:ハードカバー|Amazon Vine™ レビュー
(詳しくはこちら)
"Little Bee" is the second novel by Chris Cleave and I will be purchasing his first novel as soon as I finish this review. Little Bee is a 16-year old refugee from Nigeria who is always looking for a suicidal option for "when the men come". Her character provides a unique and captivating narrative; by page three I cared about her, by page nine I knew she had terrible story to tell me and I dreaded it.
Cleave's skillful pace brings us along in measured doses to the horrible thing that happened on a beach in Nigeria. What do a 4-year old boy who thinks he's Batman, his widowed, 9-fingered, mother Sarah, and his anguished father, have to do with Little Bee? Not only are we propelled to read what happened on that beach...we are compelled to know what will happen next.
Alternating voices of Little Bee and Sarah circle around the beach story. This is great storytelling; skillful foreshadowing, the careful scattering of clues, building suspense and dread.
Little Bee's plight overlays a rich and disturbing subtext of broader issues such as the unfathomable abyss between first and third world countries, the dark politics of oil, the labyrinthine plight of refugees and insight into UK detention centers.
Cleave has given us a beautifully written, witty, heartbreaking, evocative, suspenseful and horrific novel.
Cleave's skillful pace brings us along in measured doses to the horrible thing that happened on a beach in Nigeria. What do a 4-year old boy who thinks he's Batman, his widowed, 9-fingered, mother Sarah, and his anguished father, have to do with Little Bee? Not only are we propelled to read what happened on that beach...we are compelled to know what will happen next.
Alternating voices of Little Bee and Sarah circle around the beach story. This is great storytelling; skillful foreshadowing, the careful scattering of clues, building suspense and dread.
Little Bee's plight overlays a rich and disturbing subtext of broader issues such as the unfathomable abyss between first and third world countries, the dark politics of oil, the labyrinthine plight of refugees and insight into UK detention centers.
Cleave has given us a beautifully written, witty, heartbreaking, evocative, suspenseful and horrific novel.
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