New York Times : The 10 Best Books of 2005
New York Times : The 10 Best Books of 2005
The editors' choices include books by Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, George Packer and Joan Didion.
Fiction
- KAFKA ON THE SHORE
By Haruki Murakami
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95.
This graceful and dreamily cerebral novel, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, tells two stories - that of a boy fleeing an Oedipal prophecy, and that of a witless old man who can talk to cats - and is the work of a powerfully confident writer. (村上春樹『海辺のカフカ』)
Kafka On The Shore (Leather Bound)
- 作者: Haruki Murakami
- 出版社/メーカー: The Harvill Press
- 発売日: 2005/01/06
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Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International)
- 作者: Haruki Murakami
- 出版社/メーカー: Vintage
- 発売日: 2006/01/03
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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- ON BEAUTY
By Zadie Smith
Penguin Press, $25.95.
In her vibrant new book, a cultural-politics novel set in a place like Harvard, the author of ''White Teeth'' brings everything to the table: a crisp intellect, a lovely wit and enormous sympathy for the men, women and children who populate her story.
- PREP
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, $21.95. Paper, $13.95
This calm and memorably incisive first novel, about a scholarship girl who heads east to attend an elite prep school, casts an unshakable spell and has plenty to say about class, sex and character.
- SATURDAY
By Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26
As bracing and as carefully constructed as anything McEwan has written, this astringent novel traces a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon who comes face to face with senseless violence.- 作者: Ian McEwan
- 出版社/メーカー: Nan A. Talese
- 発売日: 2005/03/22
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- 作者: Ian McEwan
- 出版社/メーカー: Vintage
- 発売日: 2006/01/05
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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- VERONICA
By Mary Gaitskill
Pantheon Books, $23
This mesmerizingly dark novel from the author of ''Bad Behavior'' and ''Two Girls, Fat and Thin'' is narrated by a former Paris model who is now sick and poor; her ruminations on beauty and cruelty have clarity and an uncanny bite.- 作者: Mary Gaitskill
- 出版社/メーカー: Pantheon
- 発売日: 2005/10/11
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- 作者: メアリーゲイツキル,Mary Gaitskill,酒井洋子
- 出版社/メーカー: 早川書房
- 発売日: 1993/10
- メディア: 単行本
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- 作者: メアリーゲイツキル,酒井洋子
- 出版社/メーカー: 早川書房
- 発売日: 1989/09
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Nonfiction
- THE ASSASSINS' GATE
America in Iraq
By George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26
A comprehensive look at the largest foreign policy gamble in a generation, by a New Yorker reporter who traces the full arc of the war, from the pre-invasion debate through the action on the ground.
- DE KOONING
An American Master
By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Alfred A. Knopf, $35
A sweeping biography, impressively researched and absorbingly written, of the charismatic immigrant who stood at the vortex of mid-20th-century American art.
- THE LOST PAINTING
By Jonathan Harr
Random House, $24.95
This gripping narrative, populated by a beguiling cast of scholars, historians, art restorers and aging nobles, records the search for Caravaggio's ''Taking of Christ,'' painted in 1602 and rediscovered in 1990.
- POSTWAR
A History of Europe Since 1945
By Tony Judt
The Penguin Press, $39.95
Judt's massive, learned, brilliantly detailed account of Europe's recovery from the wreckage of World War II presents a whole continent in panorama even as it sets off detonations of insight on almost every page.
- THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
By Joan Didion
Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95
A prose master's harrowing yet exhilarating memoir of a year riven by sudden death (her husband's) and mortal illness (their only child's).