Flint and Mirror
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- ¥1,500
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- ¥1,500
発行者による作品情報
"Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust."—Peter Straub
From award-winning author John Crowley comes a novel that masterfully blends history and magic in Flint and Mirror.
As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English.
Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, is a divided man: the Queen gives to Hugh her love, and her commandments, through a little mirror of obsidian which he can never discard; and the ancient peoples of Ireland arise from their underworld to make Hugh their champion, the token of their vow a chip of flint.
From the masterful author of Little, Big comes an exquisite fantasy of heartbreaking proportion.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Crowley (the Aegypt tetralogy) triumphs with this beautiful, subtle fantasy, set in a 17th-century Ireland subject to both the desires of Queen Elizabeth and a host of magical forces. Crowley introduces his protagonist, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, as an adult in Rome, where he lives in fear despite residing in apartments provided by the pope himself; his past actions mean that he must sleep with a sword within arm's reach because "on any night he might be murdered by agents of one or another of the powers he had striven with, or betrayed, or failed." Having hooked his audience, Crowley flashes back to previous chapters in O'Neill's life, starting with his childhood, to explain how he came to be at odds with both the English and Spanish Crowns, and his own Irish clan. Rich, evocative prose ("The ship she had watched could still be seen, dis-masted now and smashed in the rocks like unswallowed fragments in a mastiff's mouth"), one of Crowley's hallmarks, elevate this above similar works. Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will be mesmerized.
