Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again. Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.”—The New York Times “Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved [the Threadgoodes] in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.”—Harper Lee “This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.”—Los Angeles Times “Funny and macabre.”—The Washington Post “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle

ファニー・フラッグが描くのは、世代を超えて共鳴する女性たちの魂の連帯です。差別や偏見が渦巻く不条理な時代を、不屈の勇気とユーモアで突破していく彼女たちの姿は、読む者の心を震わせます。五感に訴える瑞々しい筆致は、南部アメリカの風土と共に、忘れ去られゆく大切な記憶を鮮明に現代へ繋ぎ止める魔法のようです。 映画も傑作ですが、原作ではイジーとルースの愛がより明確に綴られ、活字ならではの多層的な深みを味わえます。映像では語りきれなかった個々の孤独と救済のドラマは、より力強い生への肯定感に満ちています。映画の感動をさらに深く、そして鮮烈に上書きしたいなら、本書に流れる真の絆と熱量に今すぐ触れてください。