Holes (Holes Series) 英語版 ホールズ Louis Sachar ルイス・サッカー 本・書籍

ルイス・サッカーによるジュブナイル小説。
1998年に初版が出版され、同年の全米図書賞児童文学部門、1999年にはニューベリー賞を受賞!

A modern classic . . . from the New York Times bestselling author who has been recognized with the Newbery Award as well as the National Book Award!

Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from Louis Sachar’s new middle-grade novel, Fuzzy Mud.

出版社:Yearling; Reprint版
発売日:2000/5/9
言語:英語
272ページ

※英語版です。日本語訳はありません。
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment?and redemption.