When We Were Orphans

KazuoIshiguro

• Faber & Faber (2005年3月3日発売)

感想・レビュー・書評

[くろすけとしのさんの感想 · 2012年5月30日]

主人公の無邪気にも正義を信じている様子や、ある種のイングランド人が持っている独特の傲慢さがすごくよく描かれていた。誰でもいいから幸せになれたらよかったのに。

[reiruiさんの感想 · 2011年5月24日]

Intertwining story that travel through time, location, and history.

The narrative features are purely and very much Kazuo Ishiguro, quite and descriptive, sometimes overwhelms the reader with main character's high consciousness. Yet the whole story separate itself from Ishiguro's other stories, by creating a character that user wish to dig deeper and discover Ishiguro himself; a character that holds both eastern and western perspectives, who are haunted by it, perceived from others by it, creating a complexity yet a sensuality through out the book.

Orphans, need to keep looking for a way to sustain themselves by reinstating the past. They have to keep on wondering, searching, for a place. In that sense, I guess we are all orphans.

[bobby8さんの感想 · 2009年9月13日]

普通に面白かった。読んでいて読み飽きない。