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藝術學院畢業後，John-Calum Macleod 身無分文，藝術之路也沒有想像中順利，只能搭船回到蘇格蘭 Harris 島的家鄉。島上的風、農舍與生活彷彿從未改變，改變的卻是他自己。回家後，Cal 再次生活在父親 John 與祖母 Ella 之間：父親是牧羊人、織工，也是當地長老教會的重要人物；來自 Glasgow 的祖母，則多年來勉強維持著與女婿之間的和平。當 Cal 渴望愛情與屬於自己的生活，父親卻無法理解兒子的模樣與選擇，家庭與社群長久維繫的平衡也逐漸鬆動。John of John 是 Booker Prize 得主 Douglas Stuart 繼 Shuggie Bain、Young Mungo 後的全新小說，透過一名年輕男子返鄉的故事，細膩描寫父子、信仰、傳統、欲望與家庭期待。From Douglas Stuart, Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John. The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO. 'This book is special' - Colm Tóibín'Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous' - Min Jin Lee'Brilliant and rare' - Ann Patchett'A masterpiece' - Elaine Feeney'A fierce, glorious sting of a novel' - Lauren Groff Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept cr

From Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John.

From the Booker-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving, and beautifully crafted novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family, of a father's expectations and a son's desiresOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the island of Harris to find that little has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal begrudgingly resumes his old life, stuck between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for several decades. Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As lambing s