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The Stranger Diaries 낯선 자의 일기 by Elly Griffiths 본문

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The Stranger Diaries 낯선 자의 일기 by Elly Griffiths

allybanrun 2025. 1. 23. 22:12

" This book started off slowly. It began with a character, Clare, who was writing in her diary the kind of simple banal stuff we diarists write. And then she mentions that a friend of hers has been murdered. She’s horrified but really not that horrified. I actually didn’t like Clare, she seemed very cold and self-absorbed. Then a second character takes over the narrative, one of the detectives on the murder case, Harbinder Kaur. I liked her a lot better, she explained what was happening with the murder (I mean, if one is reading a mystery, it’s because one wants to know about the murder!) And she is a fun character, Sikh, lives at home with her parents, doesn’t understand some of the niceties of Clare’s life (her opinion of diarists is so funny.) She becomes quite friendly with Clare and Clare’s daughter Georgie who becomes the third narrator. Georgie is 15 years old, a good writer, and very involved with a creative writing group with three other teens. They are mentored by a teacher at the sixth form school, who professes herself to be a white witch. One thing that surprised me was the Georgie had a 21 year old boyfriend, Ty. Clare seems to be quite cavalier about it all although she rather desultorily writes from time to time that Ty is too old for her. Those are the main characters with a few that hover in the background; one of these minor characters gets murdered and another attacked before the murderer is finally caught. I thought I had the puzzle solved three quarters of the way through the book but the ending actually surprised me. Griffiths threw a couple of red herrings in and I was taken in....."

'에드거상 최우수 장편상'을 받은 작품이다. 이 작품에 대한 선전문구보다는 두 개의 이야기 구성, 주요 인물들의 시점과 서술, 동성애자이고 인도이민자의 딸이며 35세의 나이까지 부모들과 같이 살고 있는 여형사 Harbinder Kaur 의 활약등이 이 작품의 독특한 점이라고 할 수도 있을 것이다. 문장의 구조나 표현등이 난해하지는 않지만 인터넷의 도움을 받아야 하는 내용들이 등장한다. 그리고 독자에 따라서 이야기의 전개가 좀 지루하다고 느낄 수 있다. 막판의 반전이 그나마 기다린 보람을 주는 거 같다. 한국어 번역본도 참고했는데 많은 도움이 되었다.