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Playground

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內容簡介 《樹冠上》《迷惘》作者、普立茲獎得主理查．鮑爾斯最新震撼力作 榮登《紐約時報》暢銷榜、2024布克獎長名單入圍。在精英高中裡，性格南轅北轍的拉斐與陶德因一款三千年前的古老棋局而結緣。這段連結改變了他們的一生——拉斐投身文學世界，陶德則開啟了顛覆性的人工智慧研究。另一端，伊薇在蒙特婁的泳池底部，背著世界最早的潛水呼吸器下潛；伊娜則在太平洋沿岸的海軍基地長大，以藝術築起自己的家園。多年後，他們的軌跡交會於法屬玻里尼西亞的馬卡提亞島——一個背負歷史傷痕、即將成為人類下一場冒險舞台的地方：漂浮自主海上城市計畫即將啟動。當海上殖民迫在眉睫，伊薇會如何在這場無盡的海洋遊戲中落子？伊娜會選擇破壞？陶德與拉斐雖早已疏遠，卻再度陷入競爭——一方追尋人類永生的邊界，另一方則面臨決定島嶼與海洋命運的抉擇。 以全球最大洋域為舞台，《海洋遊樂場》交織科技、環境與人性探索，展現理查．鮑爾斯獨有的詩意與洞察。A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZETHE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT‘Ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness' OBSERVER'An ambitious, rapturous epic' GUARDIAN‘Magisterial, moving and thought-provoking … a beautiful love letter to our oceans’ NEW SCIENTISTRafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school. As adults, Rafi gets lost in literature, while Todd’s enters the world of AI. Elsewhere, Evie sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure.Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity.'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and live' PERCIVAL EVERETT'Brilliant, captivating and important' ANDREA WULF'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA DONOGHUEPraise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

作者介紹

作者介紹 Richard PowersRichard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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最佳賣點 : 《樹冠上》作者、普立茲獎得主理查．鮑爾斯最新震撼力作，在浩瀚太平洋上，人性、科技與環境命運交織，理查．鮑爾斯震撼描繪人類最後的海洋冒險。

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