Senji No Ongaku (CREST)

[Machine Translation] A virtuoso violinist who has lost his ring finger. A chef who pretends to be a university professor. A disillusioned elephant tamer. The stories of these people, who struggle to create something, while being tossed about by the absurdity of the times and fate, spread out as if interconnected, interweaving with the artist's own family history. Seventeen stories filled with wonder and compassion by a master storyteller who has been selected as one of the Best American Short Stories for four years in a row.

薬指を失った名ヴァイオリニスト。大学教授になりすますシェフ。失意の象使い。時代や運命の不条理に翻弄されつつも、何かを生み出そうと苦闘する人々の物語は、作家自身の家族史をも織り込みながら、繋がり合うように広がっていく―。ベスト・アメリカン・ショート・ストーリーズに4年連続選出された名手による、驚異と慈愛に満ちた17篇。