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2019年莉莉安・史密斯圖書獎（Lillian Smith Book Award）、 2018年麥加農中心圖書獎（McGannon Center Book Prize）獲獎作品 本書揭露高科技工具影響人權與經濟公平。 看似客觀中立的機器運算， 可能在學習人類提供的資料後， 再複製社會偏見與歧視，形成「自動不平等」！ ▴美國印第安納州在三年內駁回100萬人的醫療照護、糧食券和現金救濟申請，只因為資格自動審查機制把不完整的申請錯誤統統歸結為申請者未能配合。繁瑣的行政程序和不合理的期望使人們無法獲得應得的利益，只有少數幸運兒得以獲得公共資源。 ▴▴洛杉磯由於住房有限，當局採用一種演算法，計算成千上萬名無家可歸者的「相對弱勢」，並按照優先排序提供這些人住房服務與資源。然而，這套系統會跟警察系統共享貧窮人口和工人階級的個資，造成窮人與犯罪分子輕易被歸納為同一個分類，否決了他們的基本權利，損害了他們的人性與自主權。 ▴▴▴賓州阿格勒尼郡的風險預測模型以統計數據來預測哪些家庭會虐童、哪些人是問題父母，但數據庫的資料來源卻集中在仰賴公共資源的低收入家庭。光是在2016年，模型預測的1萬5139筆虐童報告中，就有3633筆不正確；在此同時，數千個貧困家庭與少數族群的生活早已無端遭受侵入及監視。 進入數位時代以來，金融、就業、政治、衛生和公共服務、治安管理等領域的決策都經歷了革命性的變化。如今是由自動化系統而不是由真人來掌控哪些社區受到監管，哪些家庭獲得需要的資源，或是哪些人該接受詐欺調查。雖然人人生活在這種新的資料制度下，但侵入性及懲罰性最強的制度，卻完全針對窮人所設計。 政治學家維吉妮亞・尤班克斯在本書中，有系統地探究了資料探勘、政策演算法、預測性風險模型對美國窮人與勞工階級的影響。書中充滿了令人揪心、瞠目結舌的故事，例如印第安納州一名婦人因為癌症末期住院治療，錯過了重新認證補助資格的預約，被取消福利救濟；賓州的某個單親媽媽每天都擔心失去女兒的撫養權，只因她符合某種統計形象。 美國一直以來使用最尖端的科學與技術來遏制、調查和懲戒窮人。「數位追蹤」與「自動化決策系統」就像以前的郡立濟貧院以及科學慈善運動，讓中產階級看不到貧困，讓國家抽離了道德規範，做出非人道的選擇：誰能獲得溫飽、誰得挨餓受凍；誰有住房、誰依舊無家可歸；政府應該拆散哪些家庭。在這過程中，它們更削弱了民主，背叛了人們最珍
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021Discover the Sunday Times bestselling story of a family in crisis.'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges, 2021'A masterpiece - a moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day____________________________On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?____________________________'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín'Bursting with life' The Times'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley'Stunning' ObserverShortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Fo
Oscar Book Prize 2022An uplifting, magical book perfect for sharing at bedtime that will leave children feeling warm, cosy and loved. Freya and her mum have gone to a little cabin to get away for a while. The light has gone out of their lives since Freya's dad passed away.Freya isn't sure about going sledging, but when she meets a magical fox in the snow, she can't help but follow him into the forest - and on to a thrilling adventure. A heartwarming bedtime story inspired by the Finnish Saami myth of the revontulet, or fox fires - the sparks that fly from the fur of a mystical fox to become the Northern Lights. The Fire Fox is a gloriously illustrated, beautifully written story about the nurturing light of love that can't be dimmed, written by debut author Alexandra Page and illustrated by the exciting talent Stef Murphy.This enchanting picture book with its touching story of sadness, hope, love and joy begs to be read again and again.
年度曼布克獎得主。作者以一個南非白人家庭的葬禮為主軸，藉年輕一代家庭成員的口提出家庭對長期工作的黑人女傭沒有遵守的承諾，深入描述他們從種族隔離年代到現今社會的種種故事。Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.'Astonishing' Colm ToibinThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life.After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.In this story of a diminished family, sharp and
自稱賣藥人的舊貨商用一塊洗衣石和一個治百病妙藥的空瓶，交換了男孩喬瑟夫的睡衣和羊肩肉，一段神奇的友誼就此萌芽…布克獎入圍，高齡87歲的Alan Garner再次發揮無邊想像力，融合魔法與民間故事，帶給我們一段無比驚喜的閱讀旅程。shortlisted for the BOOKER PRIZE 2022A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him. 'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!' Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard.It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased.He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip. Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and
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*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . .tender, touching and true.' The Times'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
Deep in the depths of the forest, under rustling leaves, live the fairies. You probably think that fairies are good, kind and sweet. Well, a lot of them are. These helpful fairies take care of the for
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war以Chinaman橫掃獎季，斯里蘭卡怪才小說家Shehan Karunatilaka角逐布克獎新作。時值內戰，遭支解棄屍的攝影師在天國醒來，對痛下殺手的人毫無頭緒。與此同時，長眠不代表他終可安息。分秒必爭，他得想方設法，引導至親好友，找到足以撼動整個斯里蘭卡的那張照片…Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest.But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Karunatilaka is back with a ri
