《Vigil》是紐約時報暢銷第一、布克獎得主 George Saunders 的全新小說，故事聚焦石油公司執行長生命最後時刻的床邊，充滿電光火石般的衝擊與深刻洞察。來自《林肯在中陰》作者的震撼新作！一位石油帝國大亨躺在病床上，面對死亡、遺憾與家族糾葛，他的意識在回憶與幻覺中遊走，揭露權力、金錢背後的孤獨與人性掙扎。Saunders 以招牌黑色幽默與細膩心理剖析，打造一場床邊的「守夜」儀式，讓讀者在笑中淚中反思人生。這是 2026 年最值得擁有的文學大作！“After his spectacular Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last.”—Los Angeles TimesA “daring” (Time) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and Tenth of December, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next“Vibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.”—The Boston GlobeNot for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher
