睽違16年，普立茲獎得主戈馬克．麥卡錫繼《長路》後， 將於2022年底接連推出The Passenger與Stella Maris兩本重磅新作！ ✰ 麥卡錫新作獲紐時、衛報關注！ ✰ 普立茲獎得主麥卡錫《The Passenger 乘客》續作！ 年輕數學博士候選人艾麗西亞住院，被診斷出患有妄想型思覺失調症，她拒絕談論兄長。小說以她的療程紀錄叩問上帝、真理與存在。 The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.