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The Swimmers

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The Swimmers

著者： Julie Otsuka
ナレーター： Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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概要

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic

Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...

Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ...

As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.

A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.

PRAISE FOR JULIE OTSUKA:

"Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences" Marie Claire

"Powerfully moving . . . intensely lyrical . . . verges on the edge of poetry" Independent

"A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women" Telegraph

© Julie Otsuka 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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批評家のレビュー

Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us
Here comes the new Julie Otsuka novel, so we can begin to live again
Heartbreaking and astoundingly good
I'm in awe of how this beautiful, graceful novel can hold so much grief and loss and love in its pages: a literary gem.
'If it wasn't tragedy it would be comedy, and it nimbly treads the very narrow line between'
'One of the marvels of The Swimmers is its unshowy portrayal of the immense drama inherent in losing the mind before the body has expired. But perhaps even more impressive is its respect for the general confusion of living'
Poignant and funny, I've never read such a brilliant account of this devastating illness, nor for that matter of the compulsive nature of swimming lengths in a pool.
"The Swimmers" is an exquisite companion. Though it doesn't answer the unanswerable, the novel's quiet insistence resonates: that it is our perfectly ordinary proclivities that make us who we are.
An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent
Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving
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