向こうではクリスマス、ということで、日本でもこのような記事がそろそろ目につく時期となりました。
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
ジョナサン・フランゼンの『フリーダム』はやはり今年の注目作ですね。
今年8月に亡くなったトニー・ジャットさんの『荒廃する世界のなかで』を今回は Mary Beard さんが挙げていました。
The most moving book of the year for me was Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land (Allen Lane) – a powerful "living will" written as Judt succumbed to the complete paralysis of motor neurone disease. It is a marvellous denunciation of modern politics ("Something is profoundly wrong with how we live today"), written with all the grace and intensity that only the dying can muster.
Books of the year
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/27/christmas-books-year-roundup
