Butterfly Winter
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- ¥410
発行者による作品情報
The final novel from legendary Canadian author WP Kinsella.
Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, an enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question.
The brothers are born to play baseball, they even played catch in the womb, and at the age of ten they leave home for the American Major Leagues. Julio proves to be a winning pitcher who, much to the frustration of any team that signs him, will only throw to his catcher brother, who is a very weak hitter.
Reviews
"It is the voice of a master who speaks through these pages." – Globe & Mail
"A phenomenal comeback." – Winnipeg Free Press
"Butterfly Winter is magical, with language that sings off the page." – NOW
"The author's mastery of the written word has only grown with the passing of time." – Columbia Daily Tribune
About the author
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At 76, Canadian writer Kinsella (Shoeless Joe) emerges from a 15-year literary hibernation with this grim, violent novel of twin brothers and the sport that binds them. The narrative is relayed through an interview between a sage, elder "Wizard" and a spry "Gringo Journalist" eager to pen a true history of Courteguay, a fictional baseball-loving country on Hispaniola. Amid details of political melodrama, the Wizard reveals Courteguay as the home of two baseball players who took the world by storm: Julio and Esteban Pimental. Julio, a virtual star from birth, can only pitch well if his brother Esteban is catching, a crutch that will haunt his stellar career. Courteguay, meanwhile, elects the Wizard president, who is soon overthrown by the malicious politician Dr. Lucius Noir, who, in between torturing citizens, bans baseball. In America, the boys excel in the sport and though Julio becomes the "greatest pitcher ever to play in the Major Leagues," his heart is broken when his first love, Quita, is tortured and killed by Dr. Noir. Kinsella incorporates fantastical elements, but the novel's light and dark themes don't mesh well, nor do the shifting perspectives and narrative techniques serve the author's grand imagination.
