Exit Party

2031 年的洛杉磯：美國解體後的第一個春天，維和部隊撤出城市，藍花楹綻放，宵禁終於解除。艾莉・韋克（Ari Waker）和室友穿過嗅探犬、棚戶區和紅十字會帳篷的層層關卡，橫跨銀湖區去參加一場派對。公寓裡的氣氛狂熱喧鬧，人們飲酒起舞，一名女子身穿如錫箔般摺皺的銀色洋裝。接著，異變驟生：一個神情迷惘的雙胞胎、一個詭異的替身（doppelganger）跌跌撞撞地穿過人群走入夜色，而派對的主人卡里姆（Kareem）則憑空消失。
隨著艾莉・韋克解開這個不可思議之夜的謎團，艾蜜莉・聖約翰・曼德爾（Emily St. John Mandel）展開了一個令人動容的故事，帶我們從因內戰而分裂的未來美國，到武器商隱匿於優雅度假勝地的希臘海濱峭壁，再從穹頂城市巴黎一路延伸至月球殖民地。《Exit Party》是一部難忘的文學力作，探討安全所付出的代價、監控國家的危險，既是一首獻給與我們當前世界極為相似之處的輓歌，也是一部在巨變面前展現驚人韌性的動人故事。
Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air.

As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.