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The Water Dancer

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內容簡介 Amazon 9 月選書！2015年美國國家圖書獎非文學類得主、《在世界與我之間》作者 塔納哈希．科茨 小說處女作出生於維吉尼亞州一個種植園的Hiram Walker有個超能力，他有超強的記憶力，諷刺的是，在Hiram的母親被賣掉後，關於母親的記憶卻是一點也想不起來，只能靠著其他人的描述重建母親的形象。Hiram的父親是種植園的主人，但他並沒有受到應有的對待，自12歲起就被招喚去伺候同父異母的哥哥，在19歲那年，和哥哥跨越一座橋時，橋意外崩塌，Hiram在水中看見了異象，看見了祖先和一個在水中跳舞的女人，女人似乎就是母親。被救起的Hiram計畫起要逃離這個唯一他可以稱做家的地方，他意外加入了反對奴隸的解放組織中，因為識字加上組織相信他有超能力，Hiram被受到重視，但隨後Hiram則漸漸了解，這一切都必須付出代價。寫社會也將社會寫進故事裡，科茨的精彩小說處女作，再次證明他是當代不可或缺的重要作家之一。------------------------------------這故事是要獻給所有被惡魔吞噬的人找到自由只是第一步，活得自由完全是另一回事。我們什麼都不忘記，遺忘就會真的變成奴隸。遺忘即死亡。★歐普拉選書 ★紐約時報、亞馬遜等銷售第一★時代雜誌、NPR、華盛頓郵報等十多家媒體年度好書 ★歐普拉與布萊德彼特改編電影中曾經有一個時代，某種膚色的人只是其他人眼中的財產，他們的自由、勞動與家庭，全部無法自主。他們就像一般的人一樣，渴望自由與愛，因此他們決定成為地下分子，以地下組織的方式，一站站接駁，彼此救援。《水舞者》描述美國南北戰爭前夕的時代，黑白混血的青年海瀾逃亡與冒險的故事，他加入當時傳奇援救者「摩西」哈莉特的地下鐵路組織，並以自己能在水體瞬間穿梭的超能力，還有因超強的記憶力而具備的偽造文件能力，成為援救黑奴的重要成員。海瀾的母親是黑奴羅絲，父親是莊園主人沃克，海瀾出生沒幾歲，母親就被主人賣掉，因此海瀾什麼都記得，就是不記得母親的樣子。海瀾從青少年起就成為同父異母的白人哥哥梅納德的僕人，飽受欺凌。有天他們駕著馬車過橋，海瀾看到很像母親的身影正在橋上跳舞，瞬間橋消失了，他們掉進水中，海瀾順著一道藍光得以掙脫水流，而梅納德不幸喪生。擔心自己走上被賣掉命運的海瀾，決定帶著心愛的蘇菲亞逃亡。兩人遭到中間人出賣，不得不分開。成為地下分子的海瀾，最終跟蘇菲亞還可以再見面嗎？以新聞報導與散文、評論寫作聞名的科茨，新聞報導曾被美國的新聞研究所選為近十年最佳非虛構作品，這次他要寫的是小說。這本他寫了十年的小說，原先的用意是要寫一本愛情故事給他的母親閱讀。結果《水舞者》不僅是一本愛情故事，科茨更參考那個時代的重要口述訪談，容納了許多當時黑奴的家庭悲劇，讓人對自由與奴役有更深刻的感受。本中文書介出自《水舞者》春山出版有限公司出版#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes Ta-Nehisi Coates as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco ChronicleIN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo FilmsNOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library JournalYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.Praise for The Water Dancer“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Coates lives in New York City with his wife and son.

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