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The Book of Records

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內容簡介 •入圍美國國家書評人協會小說獎決選名單•《時代》雜誌年度必讀書籍•《紐約客》年度最佳書籍之一•歐巴馬夏季推薦書單之一•《衛報》、《Vulture》與紐約公共圖書館年度最佳書籍為何人類在宇宙中存在如此短暫，卻承載著如此漫長的時間？Lina 與病重的父親逃往一處名為「海」（Sea）的避難聚落——那是一個遷徙途中暫時停留的中繼之地。他們身邊僅帶著少數物品，其中包括《偉大航行者傳》（The Great Lives of Voyagers）百科全書系列中的三冊。在這棟神祕且不斷變幻形貌的建築裡，過去與未來彼此碰撞。Lina 結識了幾位不同尋常的鄰居：十七世紀阿姆斯特丹的猶太學者 Bento；逃離納粹迫害、身處 1930 年代德國的哲學家 Blucher；以及中國唐代詩人 Jupiter。透過他們的故事，Lina 漸漸理解命運在歷史中的作用，以及思想如何塑造世界，同時也不得不直面父親的背叛為她的家庭與他人帶來的代價。《The Book of Records》深刻、充滿冒險精神，並蘊含極其細膩的思想層次，探討人類對「家」的追尋，以及信仰與人性在世界中的位置。這部作品展現出非凡的原創性與厚度，也讓Madeleine Thien這位傑出小說家，呈現出她最具野心與最豐厚深邃的創作面貌。•Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction•A 《Time》Must-Read Book of the Year•One of 《The New Yorker's》Best Books of the Year•One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer•A 《Guardian》, 《Vulture》, and New York Public Library Best Book of the YearWhy did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series.In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China, and through their stories, she comes to understand the role of fate in history and the way that ideas can shape the world, and to face up to the cost wrought on her family and others by her father's betrayals.Profound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, The Book of Records explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Madeleine ThienMadeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, and won the Governor General's Award, among other honours. She is also the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and the novels Certainty (2006) and Dogs at the Perimeter (2012), which was shortlisted for Berlin's 2014 International Literature Award and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's 2015 LiBeraturpreis. Her books and stories have been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Montreal, Canada.

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最佳賣點 : 入圍美國國家書評人協會小說獎決選名單！Madeleine Thien最新小說。在一座漂浮於時間與歷史之間的避難之地，少女Lina與三位不同時空的思想家相遇，重新理解記憶、流亡、政治與人性。本書融合歷史、哲學與未來想像，以詩意筆觸描繪人類在災難後對「家」與救贖的永恆追尋。