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內容簡介 2022布克獎初選入圍！☆原創、令人難忘、且閃閃發光的故事！ 突如其來的診斷顛覆了Lia的世界，他的過去與現在正開始瓦解，深深埋藏的秘密被喚醒，Lia與他的家人開始面臨困難的問題：我們該如何從陰影中前進，而當你還沒準備好放手時，又該怎麼優雅地離去？ 本書是一場關於生命結束之時的成長故事，令人心碎的同時又充滿黑色幽默，直視內心深處的黑暗、狂野慾望並且寬恕一切。 'Original, memorable, shimmering' Sarah Moss'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' Daisy JohnsonToday I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone . . .Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading.When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia’s world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold of her story, and the landscape around becomes indistinguishable from the one within, Lia and her family are faced with some of the hardest questions of all: how can we move on from the events that have shaped us, when our bodies harbour everything? And what does it mean to die with grace, when you’re simply not ready to let go?Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all."
