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內容簡介 普立茲文學獎得主《時間裡的癡人》作者 Jennifer Egan 珍妮佛．伊根 新作！記憶上傳雲端中，時間裡的癡人再續前緣科技巨擘布頓花費十年打造「擁有無意識」平台，除可讓人造訪自己擁有過的記憶，還能夠分享記憶以交換探視他人的記憶。這項科技十分風靡，但是⋯普立茲小說獎得主伊根以環環相扣的敘事手法，透過多個角色數十年交織的生活軌道，演繹「擁有無意識」帶來的後果。敘事觀點在社交媒體，遊戲和平行世界變換，閱讀時宛若體驗角色扮演遊戲的多次元世界。From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing " memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious--that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of styles--from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters " who track and exploit desires and there are "eluders, " those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House.Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Egan takes her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture " (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption."
