アンヌンに思いを馳せて

Overview

Publisher
Tektime
Released
September 9, 2022
ISBN
9788835441427
Format
ePub
Category
Fiction

Book Details

ブレコン・ビーコンズの麓に住む羊飼育農家のウィリアム・ジョーンズは、妻サラが若くして亡くなるまで幸せな人生を送っていた。妻の死はウィリアムを絶望させ、自暴自棄に追いやった。娘のベッキーは父を助けようと苦心するも、次第に愛想をつかすようになっていった。ある夜、ウィリアムは自分が死んだことを確信し、みじめな生活からようやく解放されたと思った。ところが、ウィリアムは九死に一生を得た。だがそれを契機に彼の人生は一変した。彼は妻が住むアンヌンという地に行き着いた。新たな活力が湧いてくると、彼の人生、そして彼が出会う人すべての人生が変わっていった。
アンヌンに思いを馳せて-ウィリアム・ジョーンズの臨死体験に基づく物語ブレコン・ビーコンズの麓に住む羊飼育農家のウィリアム・ジョーンズは、妻サラが若くして亡くなるまで幸せな人生を送っていた。妻の死はウィリアムを絶望させ、自暴自棄に追いやった。娘のベッキーは父を助けようと苦心するも、次第に愛想をつかすようになっていった。ある夜、ウィリアムは自分が死んだことを確信し、みじめな生活からようやく解放されたと思った。ところが、ウィリアムは九死に一生を得た。だがそれを契機に彼の人生は一変した。彼は妻が住むアンヌンという地に行き着いた。新たな活力が湧いてくると、彼の人生、そして彼が出会う人すべての人生が変わっていった。『アンヌンに思いを馳せて』は、生と死の隔たりを埋める心温まる物語である。臨死体験に絡め、アンヌンというウェールズ神話における異界を新しい観点で捉えなおす。読者はウェールズのケルト神話の新たな一面を垣間見ることができ、死について新たに考え直すことだろう。

Author Description

Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis. After university, in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup, when he was accused of being a mercenary. Later, while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail, from Barry to Gibraltar on a home-made concrete yacht during Desert Storm. En voyage, the yacht was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker, and an American aircraft carrier - The Atlantic Challenger.

In 2004, he started his first novel, Daddy's Hobby (from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya'), but he didn't finish it until 2012. However, his largest collection is 'The Psychic Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. However, since 2012, he has written fifty-odd novels and novelettes, including the military drama Dead Centre; the spy novel Andropov's Cuckoo; a fantasy Fate Twister; a philosophical vampire comedy The Disallowed; a whodunnit Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and Spiritualist drama, A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Not only that, but many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audiobooks.

Since 2004, he has lived mainly in the UK, Spain and Thailand. He now leads a somewhat quieter life in his wife's remote, northern farming village writing, editing and increasing the number of translations, and narrations of his novels.

As he says: "Born in the Land of Song, living in the Land of Smiles".

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