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Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-shortlisted author of FlashlightTwo outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping story of love and war – the debut novel from Susan Choi‘A major world writer’ New York TimesIn 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by a dark episode from the past.Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.‘Epic and intimate’ The New Yorker‘A first novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness’ Los Angeles Times‘Elegantly wrought’ Vanity Fair

A young woman is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of FlashlightA young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel.‘I couldn’t put American Woman down’ Joan Didion‘A fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility’ New York TimesOn the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a San Francisco millionaire, has become a national celebrity for joining her captors’ revolutionary cell.Yet as Jenny and her charges pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York to California, isolation turns to paranoia and their radical ideals soon begin to fracture.‘Beautiful… A work of real achievement’ Jennifer Egan‘Mesmerising’ Vanity Fair‘Riveting, deeply affecting’ Jhumpa Lahiri'Amazing…compelling’ Los Angeles Times

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 –The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regimeSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime...‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton‘Engrossing... Full of brains and mystery’TelegraphOne evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk's disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.A Bookof the Year for theGuardian,Time,New Y

★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。故事始於1978年的日本，十歲的女孩 Louisa 和她的父親 Serk 在海邊散步，隔天，Louisa 在海灘上被發現，幾乎喪命，而她的父親卻離奇失蹤了。故事圍繞著這場失蹤事件展開，追溯這個破碎家庭的過去與未來：•Louisa：在父親失蹤後，由母親 Anne 獨自撫養長大。她聰明而叛逆，童年的創傷使她成為一個性格尖銳、難以親近的成年人。•Anne：Louisa 的美國母親，在丈夫消失後，獨自面對生活的挑戰與悲傷，並與女兒維持著既親密又疏離的複雜關係。•Serk：Louisa 的父親，一位在日本出生長大的韓裔學者，他的家庭因父母選擇遷往北韓而分裂。小說透過在 Serk、Anne 和 Louisa 之間切換的多重敘事視角，逐步拼湊出事件的全貌。這不僅是一個關於家庭失落與記憶的故事，更是一部深刻探討身分認同、歷史創傷、跨國政治（如日韓之間的歷史張力與北韓綁架事件）如何影響個人命運的史詩級作品。本書特別推薦給喜愛 慢熱、由角色驅動的文學小說 的讀者。這是一部橫跨數十年、融合家庭劇與歷史懸疑的史詩級故事，深刻探討了失落、記憶與身分認同等主題。若您喜歡閱讀關於不完美、甚至難以讓人喜愛但極其真實的角色，並對非線性敘事與複雜的歷史背景感興趣，這本書將帶給您極具深度與情感衝擊的閱讀體驗。對於欣賞 Susan Choi 前作（如《Trust Exercise》）中那種智慧且毫不畏懼展現人性缺陷的寫作風格的讀者而言，這部格局更為宏大的新作絕對不容錯過。**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment f