エアーズ家の没落 上

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

かつて隆盛を極めながらも、第二次世界大戦終了後まもない今日では、広壮なハンドレッズ領主館に閉じこもって暮らすエアーズ家の人々。かねてから彼らと屋敷に憧憬を抱いていたファラデー医師は、往診をきっかけに知遇を得、次第に親交を深めていく。その一方、続発する小さな“異変”が、館を不穏な空気で満たしていき…。たくらみに満ちた、ウォーターズ文学最新の傑作登場。

332 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2010

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.