ザ・ロード
The Road
あらすじ（日本語）
空には暗雲がたれこめ、気温は下がりつづける。目前には、植物も死に絶え、降り積もる灰に覆われて廃墟と化した世界。そのなかを父と子は、南への道をたどる。掠奪や殺人をためらわない人間たちの手から逃れ、わずかに残った食物を探し、お互いのみを生きるよすがとしてー。世界は本当に終わってしまったのか？現代文学の巨匠が、荒れ果てた大陸を漂流する父子の旅路を描きあげた渾身の長篇。ピュリッツァー賞受賞作。
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あらすじ（英語）
In this post-apocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. It is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.--From publisher description.
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