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★2025年 Booker Prize 入圍名單。★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。這是一部橫跨印度與美國兩大洲的史詩級小說，描寫一對年輕男女在不同時空背景下，命運交織又分離的動人故事。Sonia：一位住在美國佛蒙特州、嚮往成為作家的印度留學生。她非常想家，並與一位年長的藝術家展開一段親密關係，但這段關係充滿控制與情感虐待，為她未來的生活蒙上陰影。在身心受創後，她回到印度，卻感覺更加孤獨。Sunny：一位來自德里的年輕人，在紐約擔任記者，努力在美國尋找未來。他對自己的美國女友和周遭環境感到困惑與疏離，同時也試圖擺脫母親過多的期望與家族的紛擾。故事的核心圍繞著 孤獨感 與 身分認同。當 Sonia 和 Sunny 各自感到越來越疏遠時，他們遠在印度的家人無法理解這種孤獨，並試圖為兩人安排一場會面，結果卻適得其反，在他們有機會相愛前就將彼此推開。小說細膩描寫了兩人如何在現代世界的疏離感中，共同尋找幸福與歸屬感，探討了國家、階級、種族、歷史以及代際之間複雜的連結。本書特別適合喜愛文字優美、富含思想性的文學小說讀者。這部橫跨數十年與不同大陸的史詩級家庭傳奇，深刻探討了移民在跨文化環境中的身分認同掙扎、傳統與現代的衝突，並深入刻劃了主角的內心世界與情感轉變。對於喜愛由角色驅動的深刻故事，以及熟悉作者 Kiran Desai 前作《繼承失落的人》的讀者來說，這本格局宏大且主題相似的最新力作，將會帶來一場豐富的閱讀體驗。BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALISTA spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss“A transcendent triumph . . . not so much a novel as a marvel.”—The New York Times Book Review“A

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EXPLAINING HUMANS'A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives' Prof. Lewis Dartnell, author of BEING HUMAN: How our Biology shaped World HistoryA scientist’s journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realizations.Science helps us to understand ourselves – but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science’s story. Dr Camilla Pang will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best, most cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in our own lives.