內容簡介
內容簡介 「獨一無二的一本書」─多麗絲‧萊辛，知名作家，諾貝爾文學獎得主在大雪冰封的大地，末日災難即將來臨，秘密政府掌控世界，他進行著一個任務，一個幻夢般的任務，去尋找一個他曾愛過的女孩，這個女孩有著一頭金髮，顏色非常淺，看起來就像是有著一頭銀髮。女孩嫁給了一個殘暴的男人，他穿過冰封的高山、平原、大海，翻過一堆又一堆的殘垣破瓦，就是要從只有政府管理員才知道的殘暴男人手中，趕在大雪吞噬大地之前拯救這個女孩……本書於一九六七年出版，是Anna Kavan的最後幾部作品之一，也是最廣為人知的一部，書中人物都沒有名字，銀髮女孩有許多人認為只是一個象徵，它是一個科幻小說，同時也是富有含意的文學小說，出版後受到許多知名作家、讀者、媒體的好評。Back in print, a science fiction metaphysical thriller by a writer who has been garnering cult status"I have always admired Anna Kavan among the few writers who dared to explore the nocturnal world of our dreams, fantasies, and imagination". -- Anais Nin, from an unpublished Introduction to Ice"Ice represents one of the high points of science fiction...a catastrophe novel which goes as far beyond Ballard as Ballard is beyond Wyndham, sailing into the chilly air of metaphysics. It looks sideways at its great contemporary among pornographic novels, Pauline Reage's Story of O. Even more, it is its own self, mysterious...an enigma -- like all the greatest science fiction, approaching despair". -- Brian AldissIce was chosen by Brian Aldiss as the best science fiction work of 1967. A brilliant and memorable novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a surreal landscape of ice and snow, the result of a nuclear disaster. The country has been invaded; it is being run by a secret government and is under imminent threat of total nuclear destruction. With the narrator, the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest through the interminable and encroaching walls of ice. Written while Kavan was addicted to heroin, it was the last of her novels to be published before she died in 1968. Ice was originally published by Doubleday (1970).
