王妃マリー・アントワネット（上）

by Shūsaku Endō, 遠藤周作

美しいブロンドの髪とあどけない瞳を持つ14歳の少女が、オーストリアからフランス皇太子妃として迎えられた。少女はやがて、ヴェルサイユに咲いた華麗な花と呼ばれ、フランス最後の王妃として断頭台に消える運命にある……。フランス革命を背景に、悲劇の王妃の数奇な生涯を、貧しい少女マルグリット、サド侯爵、フェルセン、ミラボーなど多彩な人物を配して綴る、壮大な歴史ロマン。

391 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 and 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.
(from the backcover of Volcano).