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內容簡介 榮獲普立茲小說獎、星雲獎最佳小說及雨果獎最佳小說作者麥可•謝朋全新作品《Booklist》《圖書館雜誌》《出版者周刊》《Bookish》一致好評推薦暢銷書《卡瓦利與克雷的神奇冒險》及《消逝的六芒星》暢銷書作家麥可•謝朋全新小說作品，透過臨死的祖父向外孫述說一段關於瘋狂、戰爭、冒險、性與欲望、以及愛的真實故事，因而揭開一段埋藏已久甚至被遺忘的歷史。故事的開始來自一位臨終老人，因為止痛藥的效用及即將接近的死亡，促使他揭開一段埋藏已久的歷史過往。年輕時的祖父回憶為何曾經嘗試用電話線勒死生意往來的合夥人？為何他曾與夥伴們在華盛頓的橋上裝設炸藥？當他在德國成功暗殺火箭專家華納‧馮‧布朗時又有什麼感覺？還有當他在巴爾的摩與一個年輕女子相遇，戰後返鄉的他又是如何的思念她？故事背景從猶太人的貧民窟到佛羅里達的退休小鎮，祖父臨終前的一週，完整敘述了人生最偉大的「美國世代」。NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the YeariBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller"This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
