【空降紐約時報暢銷榜No.1 / 當代幽默大師 2026 頂尖回歸巨作！】
「看啊！活著是件多麼不容易、卻又多麼值得驚奇的事！」
當你被生活的瑣碎壓得喘不過氣，你需要的是一杯烈酒，和一本David Sedaris。
美國當代最受歡迎的諷刺散文大師、格萊美獎提名的「美國國寶級作家」，
繼《Happy-Go-Lucky》後，帶著他職業生涯中最辛辣、也最溫柔的 28 篇全散文重磅回歸！
這一次，David Sedaris把鏡頭對準了「變老」這件事，以及我們與身邊的人之間奇妙的羈絆。
書中提到他一邊抱怨伴侶動完髖關節手術後的傲嬌，一邊笨拙地當起全職看護；他把 Duolingo 的學習機器人當成唯一能傾聽家族祕密的知己；他跑到梵蒂岡去訂製神父的法衣、在瓜地馬拉騎著叫「龍舌蘭」的馬，卻在肯亞旅行時一張照片也不拍。甚至，他在翻閱通訊錄時，淡淡地數著那些已經離世、他無法承受失去的老友們……
這是一本會讓你「在捷運上忍不住笑出聲，卻在讀到最後一頁時偷偷抹淚」的散文作品。
In this new collection, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
“A welcome return to form for the much-awarded and much-loved humorist…Sedaris remains a national treasure.” —Kirkus (starred review)
In THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE, his first new collection since HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend. He tries on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh's hip-replacement surgery, and both succeeds and fails. He buys his sister a cape and discusses his brother with a jaded Duolingo bot. He walks dozens of miles with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. Ever adding to his list of "Countries I Have Been To," he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest's cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.
There is sadness here--scrolling through his address book, he realizes how many dear friends are now deceased--but also delight: he revels in authors' biographies, the malapropism that becomes a decades-long inside joke, and pair of well-made cotton underpants. He is bitten by a dog. A train passenger vomits in his face. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn't. Look how hard it is to be alive!
Throughout these essays--at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound--Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity this fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
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