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FINAL SOLUTION

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內容簡介 In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister?Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.

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各界推薦 作者Michael Chabon曾以《The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay》獲得普立茲獎。這本《The Final Solution》則是他的最新作品，揉合歷史、傳奇、和說故事的熱情。 作者Michael Chabon的最新力作將他一貫無邊無際的想像視野，精煉成簡短懸疑、富於機智的十九世紀風格推理故事。主角是年高八十九幽居英國鄉間的紳士，雖然作者絕口不提其姓名，卻強烈讓人聯想他是退休後的神探福爾摩斯。老先生終日以養蜂排遣閒暇，卻意外捲入怪案……。不過這次他要調查的不是謀殺案，而是要找回一隻失蹤的鸚鵡。這隻鸚鵡本來是屬於一位九歲的小男孩，這個九歲的小男孩從納粹德國逃出時，這隻鸚鵡就是他唯一的同伴，這隻鸚鵡奇特之處在於牠會說德語，牠從嘴裡冒出的語句是否有什麼含意？牽涉到當時敏感的戰爭機密嗎？Michael Chabon再度發揮他驚人的想像力與高超的敘事技巧。 Chabo作為一位普立茲文學獎得主，博學多聞卻毫不盛氣淩人，是美國大作家中最具敘事技巧的的作家之一。

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