検索キーワード： "David Park" 文学・フィクション

Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert—a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption—he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories.

Von Beruf Fotograf sieht Tom die durch den Winter zum Erliegen gekommene Welt um sich herum wie durch die Linse seiner Kamera. Schon immer hat er sein Leben auf diese Art betrachtet, und so ist es nicht weiter verwunderlich, dass er es anhand von Fotografien erzählen kann. All diese Bilder kommen ihm nun in den Sinn: das erste Foto, das er von seiner Frau geschossen hat, die Aufnahmen von Familienfeiern, die ihm seinen Lebensunterhalt sichern, und diejenigen, die er stets zu machen geträumt hat, Fotos jenseits der gängigen Sehgewohnheiten.

It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities about age, desire, and motherhood.

In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores the complicated relationship between poet and spouse through three luminous characters: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, whose husband, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin’s rule; and Lydia, the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her husband’s life in the days just after his death.