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''The Echo Maker'' (2006) is a novel by American writer Richard Powers. It won the National Book Award for Fiction〔 ("National Book Awards – 2006" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)〕〔 〕 and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist.〔("Fiction" ). ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-27.〕 ==Plot introduction== On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman — who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister — is really an impostor. Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing brain disorders. Weber recognized Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome — the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or impostors — and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Echo Maker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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