House of Day, House of Night

☆諾貝爾文學獎 × 國際布克獎得主☆奧爾嘉・朵卡萩 (Olga Tokarczuk) 新作
──《白晝之屋，黑夜之屋》──小地方的書寫，卻是無垠的星空。
從小鎮建城起源，到聖徒傳說，這些碎片逐漸拼湊出不只是歷史，更是一種宇宙觀。

這是一部書寫小地方、卻蘊含宏大故事的小說，出自諾貝爾文學獎與國際布克獎得主、《雅各之書》、《駕馭你骨頭上的犁》作者──奧爾嘉・朵卡萩之手。

一名女子遷居到波蘭一座偏遠小村，對這裡的一切一無所知。村子人口不多，卻充滿了生者與亡者的故事。
醉漢馬雷克．馬雷克發現體內棲居著一隻鳥；弗朗茨．弗洛斯特的惡夢則來自一顆新發現的行星；有個男子的死亡──
一條腿跨在波蘭，一條腿在捷克──甚至引發了國際事件；而德國人的幽靈，仍在這片不久前屬於他們的土地上徘徊。

繼國際布克獎得獎作《航班》之後，托卡丘克再度以「星座小說」的手法，帶來這部瑰麗之作──
提醒我們，任何一個地方的故事，不論多麼卑微渺小，終將無邊無際。

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.

Another brilliant “constellation novel” in the mode of Tokarczuk’s International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.