Minna No Tosho Shitsu (PHP Bungei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In this book, novelist Yoko Ogawa, who is known as a voracious reader, writes about her thoughts on 50 works of literature that she would like to leave behind for the next generation, which she calls her "literary heritage" and what to read. The book includes not only novels such as "Maime" by Ogai Mori, "The Girl on the Other Shore" by Mitsuyo Kakuta, "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov, and "On a Blackout Night" by Jhumpa Lahiri, but also a wide variety of children's literature, nonfiction, and poetry collections, from East to West.

次の世代にも残したい文学作品-いわば"文学遺産"と呼ぶに相応しい50作品への思いと読みどころを、読書家として知られる小説家・小川洋子が綴った一冊。森鴎外『舞姫』、角田光代『対岸の彼女』、チェーホフ『桜の園』、ジュンパ・ラヒリ『停電の夜に』といった小説だけでなく、児童文学やノンフィクション、詩集にいたるまで、バラエティに富んだ古今東西の名作を取り上げている。