★榮獲PEN/海明威獎《Sharks in the Time of Saviors》作者最新著作
★已授權英、德、義，3國語文

An extraordinary saga of resilience and ambition in the face of a chaotic world

A ferocious superstorm strikes Minneapolis, obliterating large swaths of the city in a matter of minutes. In the storm’s wake, three people forge an unlikely bond that will shape their lives for the next twenty-five years: Naomi, a lawyer by day and an amateur MMA fighter by night, is a Pacific Islander transplanted to the Midwest for her less-than-satisfying career; Amaré, an up-by-the-bootstraps investment banker, has grand designs for all the money he’s about to make; and Raheem is a diesel mechanic, nearly paralyzed by the storm and struggling to save his business.

When Naomi recognizes that energy companies are responsible for the climate-induced superstorm – and the many more to come, potentially dooming her island homeland – she initiates a bitter legal battle, one that culminates in her appointment to a powerful political office in DC with the potential to prevent future tragedies. Yet her rise risks a burgeoning romance with Amaré, whose own ambitions test Naomi’s ethical limits, while Raheem’s fate as a blue-collar business owner becomes dependent on the couple’s growing power.

Following his much-loved debut, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn turns his remarkable gift of mythic sight to the oceans and landscapes we so often overlook in the name of progress. Ranging from the American Midwest to the nation’s halls of power, to islands across the Pacific, The Names of the New World is a startling, energetic, and optimistic vision of how we’ll live in this era of overwhelming change.

 

Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hāmākua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Today, he lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. Sharks in the Time of Saviors, his first novel, was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Award.

 

“A tender look at what is maimed and spared when the physical world collapses around us; this book is a testament to the enduring worth of our fragile human bonds."－Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Feeding Ghosts

“The writing is cerebral, muscular, electric, moving us through disaster with a light touch, consistently tempered with tenderness, humor, and love, often gorgeous with poetry, and deeply insightful about what it means to be human now and moving forward, what it means to lose and to win both.”－Tommy Orange, author of There, There