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2018曼布克獎決選入圍！
美國書卷獎得主Richard Powers的第二十本著作！
知名加拿大作家瑪格麗特‧愛特伍盛讚「Powers不可能寫出不有趣的小說！」
藝術家Nicholas繼承了家族的栗子樹，這批栗子樹是由曾曾曾曾祖母種下，栗子樹們度過了枯萎病的危機，陪伴著Nicholas的家族好幾個世代。
1980年代一個喜愛玩樂的大學生Olivia，在一次嗑藥後不小心害自己被觸電了，短暫地死亡，起死回生後堅信高等智能一直在試著傳達訊息給自己。
聽力和口語能力都有障礙的科學家Patricia，童年時光和長大成人後的生活，都被樹木給圍繞著，她發現了樹木會互相交流的證據，但研究結果卻不被重視。
Neelay因為從樹上摔下來而半身不遂，但卻巧合讓他成為一個電腦資訊的專家，他最後以樹木為靈感設計出一款電玩。
這幾個素未謀面的陌生人，每個人都和樹木有所連結，最後因為世界上僅存了一片森林被招喚，他們將和樹木展開一場大探險。
‘The best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period’
Ann Patchett
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
‘Breathtaking’
Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times
‘It’s a masterpiece’
Tim Winton
‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book’
Margaret Atwood
‘An astonishing performance’
Benjamin Markovits, Guardian
