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The Sentence

內容簡介

內容簡介 安撫書店的絕命讀者，也是店員工作之一...美國印地安裔作家厄德瑞奇以詩崛起文壇，以小說獲得美國國家圖書獎、普立茲獎等多項榮譽，創作之餘還在明尼亞波利斯經營一家獨立書店。新作是以書店為場景的靈異喜劇小說：小書店的終極奧客芙羅菈在二〇一九年諸靈節死亡之後，仍在書店徘徊不去；印地安人圖奇出獄後好不容易在書店找到工作，她該如何解決作祟之謎，讓芙羅菈的靈魂得到安息？ "Dazzling...A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that. " (USA Today, Four Stars)In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention, " must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. "

作者介紹

作者介紹 Louise ErdrichLouise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.

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