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Glyph

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內容簡介 鬼魂並不存在。 真的不存在。就這樣。 然而，故事卻存在。 它如影隨形，無處不在。一切始於佩特拉（Petra）和她的妹妹帕琪（Patch）聽到一個來自過去的可怖故事，隨後她們發現自己竟「創造」出了一個鬼魂。 那是想像出來的？還是真實存在的？三十年後，故事再次重演。此時的佩特拉已與帕琪疏遠，卻驚覺臥室裡出現了一匹幽靈馬，正瘋狂地將家具踢成碎片。 該怎麼辦？她撥通了妹妹的電話。在這場穿梭於日益對立時代的明暗光影之舞中，《Glyph》叩問我們：我們是否正關注著塑造了我們的歷史，以及我們正在創造的歷史？這部作品以幽默、溫暖且清澈的視角看待現狀，探討想像力的意義，以及在破碎、殘酷且分裂的時代裡，我們如何重新燃起關懷、團結、抵抗與開放的心。這是一部反戰小說，也是阿里·史密斯（Ali Smith）至今最深情、最靈動、也最充滿生命力的作品；它以輕盈的姿態切入深處，藉此抵禦正讓現代世界變得扁平化的種種力量。本書為獨立長篇小說，與 2024 年出版的《Gliff》相呼應。Ghosts don't exist.They don't. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it real?Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.What to do? She phones her sister.In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024).

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ali SmithAli Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 「鬼魂不存在，故事卻如影隨形。」金獎作家 Ali Smith 最新力作。一對疏遠姊妹因兒時幻想的鬼魂與現身的幽靈馬再度交織。這部幽默且深情的反戰小說，在破碎分裂的當代，透過想像力重拾關懷與抵抗的力量，是一場抵禦平庸世界的明亮之舞。