夜愁 下

by Sarah Waters, サラ・ウォーターズ, 中村 有希 (翻訳)

1944年、ロンドン。夜ごと空襲の恐怖にさらされながら、日々の暮らしに必死でしがみつく女たちと男たち。都会の廃墟で、深夜の路上で、そして刑務所の中で、彼らの運命はすれ違い、交錯する。第二次世界大戦を背景に、赤裸々に活写されるのは人間の生と業、そして時間の流れと過ぎゆく夜。大胆な手法を駆使して、人間という存在の謎に迫る、ウォーターズ渾身の傑作。

332 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2007

About the author

Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.