USA TODAY bestseller | Christy Award Book of the Year Cooper O'Connor thought he could make it big as a musician, but he promptly lost it all. Can he repair his relationship with the father who never stopped calling him home? A Prodigal Son retelling where Redeeming Love meets Walk the Line. At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his life as well as his career. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to the remote Colorado mountains, searching for answers about his father and his faith. When Daley shows up on his street corner twenty years later, he wonders if it's too late to tell her the truth about his past--and if he is ready to face it himself. With powerful themes of redemption and forgiveness, second chances, and the power of music, Long Way Gone is a story that sticks with readers long after the last page. "Cooper and Daley's story will make you believe that even broken instruments have songs to offer when they're in the right hands. Charles Martin never fails to ask and answer the questions that linger deep within all of us. In this beautifully told story of a prodigal coming home, readers will find the broken and mended pieces of their own hearts." --Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

チャールズ・マーティンは、魂の再生を描く稀代の語り部です。本作は「放蕩息子」の寓話を現代の音楽シーンに鮮烈に重ね合わせ、挫折と贖罪を詩的に描き出しました。若き日の傲慢による喪失と、二十年の時を経て向き合う沈黙。音楽という言葉を超えた旋律が、壊れた絆を修復していく過程は、読む者の心の深淵を震わせる圧倒的な熱量に満ちています。 特筆すべきは、楽器を人生のメタファーとして扱う筆致の美しさです。壊れた楽器も正しい手が添えられれば再び響き出すという祈りに似たメッセージは、絶望を知る者への救済そのものです。赦しという重厚なテーマを、瑞々しい感性で包み込んだこの傑作は、読者の人生にいつまでも鳴り止まない旋律を残すことでしょう。