Instagram話題之作、曼布克決選小說《渺小一生》作者柳原漢雅文學力作。一個虛構的美國，時序橫跨三個世紀，三段不盡相同的人生故事，環繞愛情、家庭、種族、失去等主題展開，巧妙地相互連結、指引，帶領主角們在孤獨、遺憾、愛與恐懼中追尋理想樂園。From the author of the classic A LITTLE LIFE, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s
★首位榮獲布克獎的牙買加作家馬龍．詹姆斯★擊敗《渺小一生》的無懸念之作 七次殺戮，七十三個角色，關於暴力、犯罪的時代小說巨著\ 讀來宛如感官爆炸，令你絕對不適，靈魂卻十足酣暢 /「評審們在不到兩小時內便一致通過，這部龐大的小說幾乎是今年布克獎入圍名單中最令人興奮的一本！」——麥克．伍德（Michael Wood），2015年布克獎評審團主席──────────────當希望以槍枝揮舞，藉毒品傳送，用膚色展開 更好的終將到來，但是更糟的會先來一九七六年，牙買加政局動盪，人民民族黨和牙買加勞工黨間的對立激化，政治陰謀、黑幫勢力和外國勢力交錯蔓延。十二月三日，在巴布．馬利「微笑牙買加」演唱會前夕，多名槍手衝進他位於京斯敦的住處掃射，歌手中槍，槍手逃逸，舉國譁然。兩天後，巴布．馬利牙在演唱會結束後離開牙買加，留下一片謎團。作者以五首樂曲巧妙橫跨十五年，多角色敘事穿越京斯敦的黑幫與黨派勾結、槍枝與暴力，到紐約的毒品組織與國際角力。透過槍手、貧民窟男孩、毒販、雜誌記者、黑幫老大、CIA幹員，甚至是反思死亡的鬼魂，以眾多角色之口夾雜英語、牙買加方言和多種音樂，拼湊謀殺事件的背景與影響，牽引出時代下的掙扎與哀傷。各界好評▌《紐約時報》傳奇書評人角谷美智子（Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times）：「要怎麼描述馬龍．詹姆斯的巨著《七殺簡史》呢？就像是昆丁．塔倫提諾翻拍《不速之客》，但配樂卻是巴布．馬利，劇本則來自奧利弗．史東和威廉．福克納，或許還加了一些頂級大麻的創意助推。它從各種意義上來說都是一部史詩：廣泛、神話、誇張、龐大且令人目眩神迷的複雜，同時又原始、厚實、暴力、灼熱、陰暗滑稽、令人振奮和令人筋疲力盡。這證明了詹姆斯先生的雄心萬丈和驚人的才華。」▌《紐約時報書評》（New York Times Book Review）：「馬龍．詹姆斯是一位大師……這部小說是後殖民時代的史詩，關於牙買加和其他地方以及美國參與其中的歷史……這本書不僅有說服力，而且是悲劇性的，儘管其多元性和範圍遠不只於此……它創造了自己的音樂，不像馬利的音樂，而像是他無法阻止的騷動。」▌《娛樂週刊》（Entertainment Weekly）：「沒什麼比這部作品更令人敬畏的了。」▌《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）：「一部傑作……一部大膽、高要求、富有創意的
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016. Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015.The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his m
2015 Man Booker Prize longlist Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first cent
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the d
A Little Life 渺小一生Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement—and a great gift for its publisher.When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a
