ニューヨークタイムズが選ぶ今年の１０冊

今週の日曜版の書評は今年の10冊を発表していました。もう、そんな時期になってしまったということですね。

The 10 Best Books of 2013
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Published: December 4, 2013

10冊について語るポッドキャストはこちら。

今年の100冊については先週発表されていました。
100 Notable Books of 2013
Published: November 27, 2013
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

自分が読んだことのある本は、フィクション、ノンフィクション各１冊ずつでした。

Tenth of December (2014/01/02) George Saunders 商品詳細を見る

TENTH OF DECEMBER

Stories 
By George Saunders.
Random House, $26.
Saunders’s wickedly entertaining stories veer from the deadpan to the flat-out demented: Prisoners are force-fed mood-altering drugs; ordinary saps cling to delusions of grandeur; third-world women, held aloft on surgical wire, become the latest in bourgeois lawn ornaments. Beneath the comedy, though, Saunders writes with profound empathy, and this impressive collection advances his abiding interest in questions of class, power and justice.

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Wave (2014/01/28) Sonali Deraniyagala 商品詳細を見る

WAVE

By Sonali Deraniyagala.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.
On the day after Christmas in 2004, Deraniyagala called her husband to the window of their hotel room in Sri Lanka. “I want to show you something odd,” she said. The ocean looked foamy and closer than usual. Within moments, it was upon them. Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents and two young sons to the Indian Ocean tsunami. Her survival was miraculous, and so too is this memoir — unsentimental, raggedly intimate, full of fury.

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来週末あたりはTimeが同じように今年の本を特集しそうですね。