Nineteen Minutes [ペーパーバック]

19分あれば、前庭の芝生を刈れるし、髪を染められるし、ホッケーの試合を3分の1見られる。19分あれば、スコーンを焼けるし、歯医者に歯を詰めさせることもできる。5人家族の洗濯物をたたむこともできる…。19分あれば、世界を止めることも、地球から飛び降ることもできる。

19分あれば、復讐することができる。

スターリングは、ニューハンプシャーにある小さな普通の、決して何も起こらないような町だった――ショッキングな暴力行為が充足感を砕いてしまう日までは。町の住民は解決に取りかかろうと正義を求めるだけでなく、悲惨な出来事で演じた役割を受け入れなければならない。彼らには、真実と虚構、善と悪、インサイダーとアウトサイダーの間の線は永遠に見えなくなっていた。裁判官の10代の娘、ジョージー・コーミアは事件に関わっており、状況の一番の目撃者かもしれないが、自分の目の前で起きたことが思い出せない。そして、裁判が進むにつれ、高校と大人の地域社会との間の断層が見え始め、親しい友人関係や家族を壊していく。

『Nineteen Minutes』はニューヨーク・タイムズ紙のベストセラー作家、ジョディ・ピコーの、これまでで最も生々しく正直で重要な小説。世に知られるわかりやすい文体で語られ、単純だが簡単には答えられない問題を投げかける。子どもが親にとって謎めいた存在になることはあるのか？　この社会で人と違っていることにはどんな意味があるのか？　犠牲者が逆襲するのは許されるのか？　そして――もしいるとしたら――だれかに他人を裁く権利はあるのか？ --このテキストは、 ハードカバー 版に関連付けられています。

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Starred Review. Bestseller Picoult (My Sister's Keeper) takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller, about a high school shooting. Peter Houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd, brings weapons to his high school in Sterling, N.H., one day and opens fire, killing 10 people. Flashbacks reveal how bullying caused Peter to retreat into a world of violent computer games. Alex Cormier, the judge assigned to Peter's case, tries to maintain her objectivity as she struggles to understand her daughter, Josie, one of the surviving witnesses of the shooting. The author's insights into her characters' deep-seated emotions brings this ripped-from-the-headlines read chillingly alive. (Mar.)
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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families.

Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who -- if anyone -- has the right to judge someone else? --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。

"A master of the craft of storytelling."

-- AP Newswire

"Picoult spins fast-paced tales of family dysfunction, betrayal, and redemption.... [Her] depiction of these rites of contemporary adolescence is exceptional: unflinching, unjudgmental, utterly chilling."

-- The Washington Post

"Jodi Picoult's books explore all the shades of gray in a world too often judged in black and white."

-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Jodi Picoult is the author of nineteen novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。