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The High House

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內容簡介 活在滅絕威脅之前，黑暗中仍見愛與優雅微光 當氣候暖化導致海平面不斷上升，暴風雨襲捲的機率一次次增高，沿海城鎮開始出現因洪水不散、必須遷村的危機。 卡蘿的父親與繼母法蘭切絲卡正在為嚴重的氣候邊遷問題奔走，四處舉行演說，高呼必須正視「世界末日」的來臨，而卡蘿和她的繼弟保利，在父親的安排下，他們來到離海岸有段距離的蘇佛克，一座位於山上、古老且富足的農舍。農舍主人格蘭迪和他的孫女莎莉同住，接待在恐慌混亂之中到來的姐弟，原本陌生的四個人必須共同面對世界末日的恐懼感，也必須想盡辦法生存，失去親人的卡蘿與保利，又能否重新找回勇氣，展開新的人生？ 以處女作“Sight”入圍Woman’s Prize，作者Jessie Greengrass這次挑戰“Cli-Fi”主題(氣候科幻)，以流暢且簡約的文筆，描述姐弟來到農莊時為大自然豐盛富足的生命力所震懾，以及他們身心的轉變，巧妙地運用對話，將角色的聲音、個性與情緒融入其中，並重新令人省思氣候、人類和環境的問題。 Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster--but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy--the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything--can teach them as his health fails. A "timely and terrifying" (Oprah Daily) novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is "painful and beautiful...not to be missed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

作者介紹

作者介紹 Jessie GreengrassJessie Greengrass spent her childhood in London and Devon. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, with her partner and children. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, won the Edge Hill Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Sight, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The High House is her most recent novel.

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