The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series)
- Vintage (2003年2月6日発売)
- Amazon.co.jp ・洋書 (256ページ)
- / ISBN・EAN: 9781400034772
感想・レビュー・書評
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とてもかわいい本。
舞台はアフリカ。私立探偵業を営む女性と、彼女を取り巻く隣人の物語。もちろん色々事件や恋はおこるのだが、流れる時間がアフリカ時間なので、鬼気迫るようなことは何もない。
休みの日に、ゆったりとした気分でいたいとき、開く一冊。
バケーションでビーチで読むのも、最適。詳細をみるコメント0件をすべて表示 -
ATOS Book Level: 5.9
Word Count: 64476
Gunning Fog index: 7.49
Flesch Kincaid Grade level: 5.55
Flesch Reading Ease: 77.36
SVL10: accelerator, articulate, baptism, barge, braid, brewery, bristle, bumpy, coax, complexion, confidentiality, dangle, discrepancy, dishonesty, dispel, dwindle, elude, elusive, expectant, fatty, flank, forge, fret, fuse, gingerly, greasy, grimace, heave, huddle, hue, inadvertently, incompetent, jargon, jolt, jumbo, livestock, mantelpiece, methodical, minimal, mortar, mug, mundane, octave, outright, overgrown, overhear, parch, penal, politic, preoccupy, quarry, ramble, scorch, scribble, scurry, secretarial, shimmer, shuffle, simmer, skull, sluggish, stoke, stub, syrup, tangle, tinker, uncontrolled, unforeseen, usher, wince, wrestle
SVL11: attrition, blurt, bogus, clutter, commandment, crackle, crumple, cuff, deflate, dementia, dent, depose, distraught, drape, duct, evasive, expatriate, farce, fiddle, forensic, genealogy, genesis, ghastly, gild, gnaw, goad, grudge, grunt, hearten, hunch, hurtle, illicit, informant, insinuate, lush, murky, ominous, pathology, placate, pore, proffer, proprietor, puncture, quantum, respectability, reverberate, rife, scour, screech, scuttle, sewage, shear, slur, snarl, sparse, stagnant, stave, stunt, tally, torso, township, uncanny, upbringing, upstart, waive, wane, whirlwind, wrath
SVL12: acrid, amble, bison, canteen, charlatan, circumspect, clump, constellation, constipation, coop, copious, corrode, cower, creak, crease, crevice, dab, daub, dejected, dilapidated, embezzle, fern, flinch, foliage, garish, grubby, hoarse, indemnity, insolent, leech, lethargic, listless, mane, matron, memento, ponderous, protrude, purr, reverie, scruffy, senile, serum, slither, sprig, spurious, squatter, surly, thrash, thud, totter, unscathed, venom, virile, vulture, whitewash, wriggle -
アフリカのボツワナで探偵社を始めたマ・ラモツゥエが、様々な依頼や事件を解決していく。安心して読める話。
BBC製作のTVドラマにもなっているし、ラジオでも放送されている。
BBC7のラジオドラマも聴きやすく、おすすめです。 -
年配の人が好むようなお話です。
ゆったりのんびりお茶を飲みながら、それでも確実に事件を解決していく・・・そんな主人公がとてもいいです。
舞台がアフリカ、というのがまたいいですね。 -
推理ものではあるが、アフリカならではな事件が盛り沢山。普通とは違った毛色でこれもまた。
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シリーズ第1弾。次々におもしろ度は増していくと思います。
さっぱり読めるところが好き。 -
This really is as good as people (the critics) say.
It's enchanting and heart-warming, but not at all sweetly charming or condescending like I feared.
The prose is deceptively simple and direct, deceptively because the humour is kind of sly and tinged with sadness.
Precious is a warm but tough lady, but the African landscape she loves sounds beautiful but unforgiving and bleak at the same time.
It's more like a collection of short stories than a long novel, and the Alexander McCall Smith is a great old fashioned storyteller.
Read it: it'll make you smile (rather than laugh out loud and leaving you cold after).