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2022-09-08
The Survivalists
Kashana Cauley
Soft Skull
January 2023
288 pp
書籍編號:
01-30584
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● 內文簡介

★入圍美國小說中心首部小說獎初選(Center for Fiction First Novel Prize)!
★獲選為2022《出版者週刊》秋季獨立選書
★《每日秀》主持人崔弗.諾亞好評
★《每日秀》、《北方極樂園》編劇Kashana Cauley跨足文學界新作
★2022布克獎決選作《樹》作者Percival Everett稱其為「一部充滿智慧與美感的作品」

布魯克林的褐色砂岩獨棟房中,隱藏的不是延續美滿的兩人生活,而是赤裸黑暗的地下世界。

亞里莎(Aretha),一位從不談戀愛,眼裡只有工作的黑人律師,一生所企求的就只有功成名就。直到她愛上了亞倫(Aaron),搬進他布魯克林的住處那天為止,亞里莎原先單純的人生瞬時遁入一團迷糊。

亞倫是一位咖啡創業者,而他的室友是一群珊迪颶風創傷倖存者,整天吃著一種優化大豆蛋白,過上一種亞里莎與截然不同的生活風格。而接下來亞里莎發現她所誤入的,甚至是一個將她個人事業與道德置於風險的境地——她來到了一個神秘黑暗的地下世界,裡頭充斥著非法槍枝交易,壟罩一股難以抹去的末日感。

《生存者》(The Survivalists)探討現實、種族、社會暗處,是一部情結緊湊,富有機智、好奇心與黑色幽默之作。它寫下角色越發立體的人生轉折,也以時下年輕人最值得省思的問題直面讀者——追逐資本主義的頂端是否合適,是否理想?在一個房價越來越逼人的年代,對年輕人而言,他們終有一天能找到自己的歸屬感嗎?而生存的條件與代價又是什麼?

這部作品獻給所有喜愛《另一個黑人女孩》(The Other Black Girl)、《售罄》(The Sellout)的讀者們。

 

● 作者簡介

Kashana Cauley,作家、編劇。Cauley的編劇作品有知名脫口秀《每日秀》(The Daily Show with Trevor Noah)、美國福斯電視情境卡通喜劇《北方極樂園》(The Great North)。其餘寫作散見於《大西洋》雜誌、《紐約客》、《滾石》雜誌、《紐約時報》、《GQ》等等。Cauley是一位布魯克林前任住戶,現居洛杉磯。

 

● 媒體報導

“This is a banger of a book” —Sam Irby

"The brilliant and outrageously funny Kashana Cauley shines her laser on all the things that make our country suck, but her wit and calm intelligence make The Survivalists such a warm hot toddy of a novel." —Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends⠀

“The Survivalists is a gun blast of a book. With enough power to keep a whole city running, Kashana Cauley questions what it means to live in fear, or through it, and how much of ourselves we sometimes have to lose in order to reveal our most brilliant parts. Even more impressive is her masterful precision in capturing something we’ve all felt: the need for escape from everyday monotony. This is a delightfully irreverent novel that will leave you feeling alive, prepared for anything, and, most important, understood.”—Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

"Kashana Cauley's novel The Survivalists is beautifully written. With language that is smart, economical and clear she renders a story that is about relationships and our culture. I love this character Aretha, her observations, her arguments, her irony. This a nice piece of work."—Percival Everett, author of The Trees⠀