

內容簡介
當思想與愛碰撞,我們能否真正理解彼此?
1923 年夏天。六歲的凱瑟琳・卡羅蘭(Catherine Carolan)在父母的農場裡逐漸感到坐立難安。很明顯,她的才智很快就會超越田野另一頭那間只有兩間教室的小學校舍。
然而,在內戰後的愛爾蘭,女孩想接受教育並不是一件容易的事。而且,年幼的凱瑟琳並不是家中唯一一個開始厭倦鄉村生活的人。
1951 年夏天。為了陪伴自己走過生命最後的日子,約瑟夫・阿洛伊斯(Dr. Josef Alois)找來了一位昔日故人。
凱瑟琳就此再次出現——如今,她已成為牛津大學教授。
當阿洛伊斯的身心逐漸衰敗,凱瑟琳必須做出決定:對於這個她所愛的男人,她究竟願意跟隨他走多遠?
《A Thought Without Collision》以兩條故事線交織而成,是一部優美而深刻的小說,思索著我們究竟如何建立自己與周遭世界的關係。
'An utterly distinctive voice in contemporary Irish literature' IRISH TIMES
'One of our most original writers'IRISH INDEPENDENT
Summer, 1923. Six-year-old Catherine Carolan grows restless on her parents' farm. It's already clear that her intellect will soon outgrow the two-room schoolhouse across the fields. But in post-Civil War Ireland, an education is not an easy thing for a girl to access, and young Catherine is not the only one in her family who will come to tire of rural life.
Summer, 1951. To ease him through his final days, Dr. Josef Alois calls for someone from his past. Enter Catherine Carolan, now an Oxford professor. As Alois's mind and body falter, Catherine must decide how far she will follow this man that she loves.
A novel in two strands, A Thought without Collision is a beautiful meditation on how we construct our relationship to the world around us.
'Duncan offers a different model of novelistic causality, with characters that feel alive in their vivid and quiet complexity' SUSANNAH DICKEY
'Very moving, very funny, it will make your brain dance' JO LLOYD
'An original voice, a writer who has come to recreate the world on his own terms' COLM TÓIBÍN
作者介紹
Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer. His debut novel Love Notes from a German Building Site won the 2019 John McGahern Book Prize. His second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig (2020) was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel of the Year. His collection of short stories Midfield Dynamo was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His third novel, The Geometer Lobachevsky, was published in April 2022.
各界推薦
Uncanny, strange and exquisite, akin to the fictions of László Krasznahorkai ― Financial Times
I was so impressed and moved by this novel. A Thought Without Collision manages to seamlessly intersperse fascinating passages of mathematical philosophy with encounters of profound human tenderness, asking questions of what, exactly, it is that makes us human: the messy, tearaway nature of our thoughts? Our yearning for sense-making? Or the uncontrollable and yet transformative points of connection between us? With formal innovation and elegant, blistering prose, Duncan offers a different model of novelistic causality, with characters that feel alive in their vivid and quiet complexity -- Susannah Dickey
A tender examination of our relationships to one another and the world around us ... layered with complexity ― Irish News
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