NYT今年の10冊

今年を総括する時期になりましたね。ニューヨークタイムズの今年の10冊が発表されていました。

The 10 Best Books of 2021

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Nov. 30, 2021

個人的に注目したのはKatie Kitamuraさん。日系の方ということで、2冊目ぐらいまでは買って読んでいました。最近ご無沙汰していたので、改めて読んでみたいと思います。

Intimacies

By Katie Kitamura

In Kitamura’s fourth novel, an unnamed court translator in The Hague is tasked with intimately vanishing into the voices and stories of war criminals whom she alone can communicate with; falling meanwhile into a tumultuous entanglement with a man whose marriage may or may not be over for good. Kitamura’s sleek and spare prose elegantly breaks grammatical convention, mirroring the book’s concern with the bleeding lines between intimacies — especially between the sincere and the coercive. Like her previous novel, “A Separation,” “Intimacies” scrutinizes the knowability of those around us, not as an end in itself but as a lens on grand social issues from gentrification to colonialism to feminism. The path a life cuts through the world, this book seems to say, has its greatest significance in the effect it has on others.