From the bestselling author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's comes the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who take up residence in a tree house. “Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —New York Herald Tribune Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the tale of three misfits who move into a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.” This volume also includes Capote’s A Tree of Night and Other Stories, which the Washington Post called “unobtrusively beautiful...a superlative book.”

トルーマン・カポーティが紡ぐ本作は、後年の冷徹な作風とは対照的に、震えるほど無垢な叙情性が息づいています。ツリーハウスへ逃げ込んだはみ出し者たちの姿を通し、愛の連鎖と自由を説くその文体は、風に鳴る草の囁きさえも音楽へと変える魔法のようです。 映像版では牧歌的な情景が瑞々しく描かれますが、原作の真髄は、文字でしか到達できない孤独の芳醇な香りにあります。映像の温もりを入口に、テキストに刻まれた繊細な魂の揺らぎを深く読み解くことで、物語は真の輝きを放ちます。短編「夜の樹」が孕む闇との対比も含め、カポーティの天才的感性に溺れる至福を約束します。