作品情報

変わってしまった歴史の中で、逃れる者たちは愛と居場所を探し続けます。

第二次世界大戦後の世界が別の形を取った歴史を背景に、亡命者の愛と生存を描くオルタネート・ヒストリーです。政治の大きな分岐が個人の選択や恋人たちの未来をどう変えるのかを、親密な人間関係から照らします。 変わってしまった歴史の中で、逃れる者たちは愛と居場所を探し続けます。

書籍情報

出版社

Livingston Pr

発売日

2002-07-01

ページ数

209ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm

ISBN-13

9780942979978

ISBN-10

0942979974

カテゴリ

洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Fantasy/Alternate History

Typically, alternate history/universe novels offer a relatively happy version of history: what if Babbage had been able to perfect his difference engine and make computers readily available in Victorian England? What if Texas had declared itself a nation under Sam Houston? This novel, too, offers such a delightful excursion—momentarily. For the novel’s premise—that World War I ended much sooner, thereby avoiding the harsh Versailles Treaty, which thereby avoided the rise of Nazi Germany and its Holocaust—is fated to be only a temporary vision in young Janusz Spiegelman’s mind. The world Janusz inhabits is one that might have been, had millions of Jews not perished, one that would have been filled with their progeny. But this world is disappearing; it is daily returning to the grim reality of the Holocaust. In grim proof, every day in Janusz’s life sees more of his Jewish co-workers, friends, and acquaintances disappear; more Jewish establishments disappear—vanish completely. As we share Janusz’s harrowing, surreal experience, we are once more reminded of the vastness of the Holocaust.

Martin J. Gidron grew up in the Philadelphia area and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1991 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature. He lived in Israel for six years, returning to the United States in 1997. He is married with two children and lives in Maryland, where he works as a journalist. Gidron's poetry has appeared in Voices Israel, Jewish Currents, and Dragonfly: East-West Haiku Quarterly. A short story, The Tallis, has been published in Jewish Currents.

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