Nation
A Printz Honor Winner
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発行者による作品情報
New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award * Michael L. Printz Medal honor winner
From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, comes an epic adventure of survival that mixes hope, humor, and humanity.
When a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other refugees. And as they struggle to protect the small band, Mau and Daphne defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down.
Sir Terry also received a prestigious Printz Honor from the American Library Association for his novel Dodger.
A Clash of Cultures: He knows the ways of the island gods; she knows the ways of science. To survive, Mau and Daphne must find a common language when catastrophe leaves them with nothing else in common.Coming of Age Adventure: When a tidal wave washes away his past and his future, Mau must step out of the shadow of boyhood and lead a new nation of refugees, whether he is ready or not.Science Meets Faith: In a world turned upside down, can rational thinking and ancient beliefs coexist? This smart, philosophical novel challenges what it means to believe, to know, and to be human.A Found Family: As more refugees arrive, the small band of survivors must forge a new community from the ashes of the old, defying ancestral spirits and death itself to protect their own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Carnegie Medalist Pratchett's (the Discworld novels; A Hat Full of Sky) superb mix of alternate history and fantasy, the king of England, along with the next 137 people in line to the throne, has just succumbed to the plague; the era might be akin to the 1860s or '70s. As the heir apparent is being fetched from his new post as governor of an island chain in the South Pelagic Ocean, his daughter, the redoubtable Ermintrude, still en route to join him in the South Pelagic, has been shipwrecked by a tsunami. She meets Mau, whose entire people have been wiped out by the great wave (he escaped their fate only because he was undergoing an initiation rite on another island). She and Mau each suffer profound crises of faith, and together they re-establish Mau's nation from other survivors who gradually wash up on shore and rediscover (with guidance from spirits) its remarkable lost heritage. Neatly balancing the somber and the wildly humorous in a riveting tale of discovery, Pratchett shows himself at the height of his powers. Ages 12 up.
