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Mestra

內容簡介

內容簡介 一個受詛咒的父親，一個天賦異稟的女兒。梅斯特拉是色薩利國王的女兒，海神波塞頓賦予她一項獨特的天賦：能夠幻化成她所能想像的任何模樣。然而，她的父親卻因為冒犯了農業女神狄蜜特而被降下可怕的詛咒：總是吃不飽的極度飢餓感。深愛父親的梅斯特拉提議利用自己的新天賦來幫助他。但父親的飢餓就是個無底洞，她能幫他多久？很快地，她必須做出抉擇：要繼續幫助父親苟延殘喘，還是選擇掙脫束縛、重獲自由？From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short storyA cursed father, a gifted daughterMestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine.Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is in possession of an unnatural, insatiable hunger.Devoted Mestra suggests using her new gift to help her father. But if his hunger is bottomless, how much will he take from her? Soon she must decide: will she keep helping her father survive, or finally break free?A jewel-like tale of human fallibility, Mestra confirms Madeline Miller as our high priestess of mythology.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Madeline MillerMadeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, was shortlisted for the Stonewall Writer of the Year 2012, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and was translated into twenty-five languages. Madeline holds an MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for over a decade. She has also studied at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. Her essays have appeared in publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Lapham's Quarterly and NPR.org. She lives outside Philadelphia.

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