★歐巴馬2025年夏季選書★時間、空間、記憶交錯,穿越世紀的思想小說★家族秘密與移民流亡,情感糾葛動人心弦★與哲人、詩人跨時空對話,探討存在、救贖與責任一場跨越時代與文化的生命對話,見證人類在動盪中執著尋覓「家」與意義的感動故事。Lina與父親流離遷徙,來到謎一般的避居地「The Sea」,只攜帶寥寥幾件物品。這座充滿幻想的時空建築,往來的鄰居橫跨東西、古今:有17世紀的猶太學者、有二戰流亡的德國哲學家、還有唐朝詩人。他們透過記憶與對話,引領Lina思索人類如何面對災難,探究罪疚、責任與救贖;在父親揭露家族悲劇過往時,Lina也重新定義自我與世界。在多重時空交錯的冒險故事中,Thien描繪人類何以在流離失所、政治變革與命運洪流中,堅持尋找家園、創造自我;小說以絕美文字展現藝術與思想的力量,深入探討每一個人都是歷史中獨一無二的容器。Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China.Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Lina's illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every