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普立茲小說獎得主《The Overstory》作者
Richard Powers 2021最新力作！

一個天體生物學家，妻子早逝；9歲兒子患有亞斯柏格與過動症。

失去妻子的自己；和失去母親的兒子。

父子間深深的愛與羈絆，一起在渾沌迷茫的人生路上，與世俗眼光對抗。
在哀傷、憤怒、困惑和恐懼中，找到和解與平靜的路。

人與人之間，就像那仰頭望去的天上星星。
在黑暗的宇宙間，尋找彼此的光。

「這本令人大開眼界的小說，是十年來我讀過的最好的書，如果我們想重獲得我們的星球，就得以積極的態度將所有人聯繫起來。」—艾瑪·湯普森（奧斯卡最佳編劇獎影后）
對自然世界消逝的描寫、超越生命的願景，及父子間的親情羈絆，《Bewilderment》代表作者迄今最深情的小說。他拋出一個核心問題：這個既危險又充滿威脅的世界是什麼，我們留給孩子的居所？

羅比（Robbie）是一個 9 歲，被診斷出亞斯柏格症的男孩，他早熟的智力、驚人的記憶力和易感性，使他成為一位繪製瀕臨絕種動物天才藝術家。

他的父親西奧（Theo）是一名天體生物學家，在妻子阿里 (Aly) 去世後，他致力尋找各種跡象並獨自撫養羅比。

隨著羅比的行為越來越難以控制，西奧開始尋求一項涉及神經反饋的實驗性治療，希望羅比能藉著已故的母親腦電波紀錄，學習模擬自己情緒反應。

但是當政府撤出研究資金，羅比的病情急劇下降，帶來了令人心碎的後果。西奧能從其中拯救羅比嗎？


A heart-rending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and The New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory.

Robbie is a 9-year old boy with Asperger's-like traits, a precocious intelligence, a prodigious memory and exquisitely tuned to loss. A gifted young artist, he aims to draw all of the animals in danger of extinction. His father, Theo, is an astrobiologist, consumed with finding signs of life in the cosmos and raising Robbie alone after the tragic death of his wife, Aly. As Robbie’s behaviour grows more unmanageable, Theo seeks out an experimental treatment conducted by Dr Martin Currier involving neurofeedback that enables Robbie to pattern his emotional responses on the recorded brainwave activity of his late mother. But as government funding is pulled from the study, Robbie suffers a precipitous decline with heart-breaking consequences. With its soaring deions of the natural world, tantalising vision of life beyond it and the ferocious love of a father for his young son, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’ most emotionally powerful novel to date. At its heart is the question: What is the world, at once perilous and imperilled, we’ve left for our children to inhabit, and can Theo save Robbie from it?

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