Novelist Kelly Link: ‘I was drawn to the monsters and half-naked women on fantasy covers’

My earliest reading memory My sister and I were obsessed with Tomi Ungerer’s The Beast of Monsieur Racine, a picture book in which two children disguise themselves as a mysterious beast and are studied by a scientist. It’s a fun story, but on each page, comical and grotesque things are happening. A nail pokes up on a slide, a pickpocket steals something from a distracted woman, a falling axe split

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Kelly Link インタビュー。人の好きな本の話は面白い。「人生のちょっとした煩い」「レッド・マーズ」。