Less

2017紐約時報最受注目作品之一
2017華盛頓郵報最佳好書之一
2017舊金山紀事報最佳好書之一

橫掃各排行榜、美國全國暢銷作品

剛被出版商退回書稿的作家亞瑟‧萊斯收到了前男友的結婚喜帖，結婚對象是一個年輕許多的男子。

這場婚禮亞瑟去了太奇怪，不去又覺得有點沒面子，因此他挖出信箱中所有的信件，接受了各式各樣、來自各方的邀請，就是不想要待在家。

就這樣，他到了巴黎、柏林、摩洛哥、南印度和日本，就是不要留在舊金山。

做了許多傻事，類似跌出窗外，西裝被流浪狗啃光、在德國被誤認為德文流利的教授，但卻仍然逃不過此生摯愛已離開他的事實。

更慘的是，他即將滿五十歲，代表人生上半正式結束的五十歲，亞瑟說「這就像是你在異國的最後一天，已經知道去哪裡喝咖啡、哪裡吃飯，但你不得不離開，而且不可能再回頭。」

《愛情的謎底》作者安德魯‧西恩‧格利爾以這本帶有點幽默的小說回歸文壇，主角亞瑟雖然有點狼狽，卻讓人不得不愛，亞瑟就只是個不知如何面對前男友結婚的男人，除去各種奇怪的遭遇，這本小說就是個純愛故事。

NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award

"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all.

What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.

Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.

A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.