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“食安危機”——收錄林佛兒推理小說獎得獎作家——高雲章最新六個犯罪短篇，端出一道道致命又無法抗拒的美食料理◎七日盛宴故事由女主角在婚前七日，準備由男友帶進家中，接下來七天招待賓客的特殊食材揭開序幕。接下來七天，女主角用『烤腦花』、『滷豬心』、『扣肘子』、『肝膋』、『諸運當頭(豬頭拼盤)』、『爆皮滷白菜』跟『湯豆腐』。招待七組跟她和男友相關的親友。雖然男主角直到終幕都沒有現身，最後女主角只能在『他一直跟我們在一起』的保證下，獨自完成了婚禮。但是從女主角公寓附近開始追逐行人的流浪狗，幼年在船難中生還的男友部屬『高』留在碗中的肘子，還有他最後帶到女主角公寓協助清理的大玻璃瓶，似乎能嗅到一絲的不尋常。◎關東煮的味道名義上是傳播公司老闆，實際上騙財騙色的安恭直被發現陳屍自宅，遺體被支解成數段，每一段都經過像焚燒、戳刺之類的傷損。負責偵辦的新進刑警葉采薇因為調任後接到大量投訴，被上司華安童改派調查和安恭直曾經交往過的四名女性關係人，還要她學習一門手藝陶冶性情。在不准選擇武術跟體育課程，沒有語言天份，做手工藝又坐不住下，葉采薇最後選擇了烹飪課程。調查過程中葉采薇發現四名關係人都精通一門手工藝，而且都有財務問題，最後透過烹飪課老師備課時煮的的關東煮，取得了破案的靈感。◎家宴的五道菜身兼食品企業跟私廚主廚的繆宇貞，在要求家族晚輩用家常菜為課題，爭奪繼承人資格時身體不適送醫。葉采薇調查後，發現當天在場按照課題烹煮菜餚的五名繆家成員都涉有重嫌，然而如何在大家共同享用的菜餚中，只針對繆宇貞一人下毒？動機又是什麼？最後葉采薇在向烹飪課老師告假時，從課堂上的器皿發現凶手身份，也從凶手口中得知意外之外的犯案動機。◎聖誕節的國王餅企業董事長陶重山在自宅書房身亡，手中抓著一只綿羊造型的國王餅瓷偶。陶重山死亡前，送餐至書房的兩個女兒、女婿跟孫子都有可能是犯人，問題是陶重山手中的國王餅瓷偶，和四名嫌犯的待徵相符，案件陷入膠著。在烹飪課思考案件，被講師點名的葉采薇，在講師暗示下得知陶重山手中瓷偶的含義，還有其不為人知的過去。◎記憶的親子丼財團主席計三英和妻子孫秋芙在空難喪生前，於山區部落產下，由部落長老撫養兩年的『奇蹟金童』計四平在接任財團前夕，被踢爆不是計三英的親生兒子。計四平拜託好友華安童幫忙調查，葉采薇跟前輩向震宇尋訪部落，得知孫秋芙在部落產子，是計三英資助的山區醫院院長董鳴安編造，要部落長老配合的

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of The Trees and James.In Assumption, the follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning.Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt takes him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated feature film.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film.An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem.Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.&nb

A surrealist exploration of truth, fiction, and narrative itself, from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure.Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for FictionPercival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett’s recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical enquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of

Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.‘Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression’ New York TimesSo Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film.Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know, nor does he particularly care.What Kevin does care about are the events of the past: the affair he had with a young artist in Paris ten years ago and, further back, his journey to an El Salvador on the brink of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother. So Much Blue is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the s

An arresting story of parental love, loss and grief from one of America's finest writers.'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York TimesA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (now an Oscar-nominated film).Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.After his daughter is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Wells finds a cryptic plea for help tucked into a secondhand jacket bought online. Desperately seeking a way avoid his newfound sense of powerlessness, he embarks for New Mexico on a quixotic rescue mission.Part of the Picador Collection, a series cele

A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (adapted into an Oscar-nominated film).The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and serious amount of shares in the Turner Corporation.Percival Everett’s novel follows Not Sidney’s tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin colour with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not Sidney learns to navigate a world that doesn’t know what to do with him.This novel ranks as one of the greatest achievements of Percival Everett, an overlooked master of American storytelling.

Henrietta Lacks的細胞改變了醫學史，也改變了她家族的命運。這位普通的黑人婦女在1950年代接受治療時，癌細胞被取出並培養成「HeLa」細胞——成為疫苗與無數研究的基石。然而，她的家人多年後才得知真相。《The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks》不只是科學史的一章，更是對尊嚴、知情權與科學倫理的深刻提問。The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living .. . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.’ – Hilary Mantel, GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . .. Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world forever

The debut collection of short fiction from science fiction legend Ted Chiang, including the inspiration for the Oscar-winning filmArrival.‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ –The GuardianWithStories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories.The title novella 'Story of Your Life' was the basis for the Academy Award-winning filmArrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s unique imagination invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.‘United by a humane intell

A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life. ‘The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.’ – The TimesIn 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind.Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees marked the debut of a remarkable voice in American fiction.‘Impossible to resist’ – Daily MailPart of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.