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The Coyote’s Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
Kimball Taylor
Tin House Books
Feb. 2016
380pp
書籍編號:
03-8635
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● 內文簡介

★《蜂鳥的女兒》作者伍瑞阿(Luis Alberto Urrea)盛情推薦!

起初,有些許腳踏車被棄置在墨西哥邊城蒂華納(Tijuana)的泥土路和農地上時,當地人並不感奇怪。該地區的居民早就習慣各式各樣的廢棄物與物品殘骸。沒想到,棄置腳踏車竟不斷出現,有登山越野車、長途旅行車(touring bike)、場地越野車(BMX)、海灘自行車(beach cruiser),種類繁多,越堆越高。這些無主自行車從讓人好奇,到引發反感,最後著實成為不可思議的奇觀。

然而,直到記者金波.泰勒(Kimball Taylor)注意到這件事前,只有二種人知道背後緣由——一小群人口販運者(coyotes)以及非法移民。而因為泰勒的堅持調查,自行車耐人尋味的流動路徑才浮上檯面:黑市、好萊塢、監獄、國防與軍事工業的緊密體系。

《邊境之狼的自行車》(The Coyote’s Bicycle)述說七千台自行車與一趟不可思議的旅程的真實故事,故事中有一位來自墨西哥瓦哈卡(Oaxaca)的年輕人,抵達美墨邊境時身無分文,後來如何建立了一個地下王國,又離奇消失了。泰勒追蹤這些邊境自行車的路徑,驚人地發現自行車進出各種各樣社會上最具勢力的組織,且因意外的情報來源,得以重建蒂華納最創新人蛇集團的崛起過程。

本書觸及移民、全球化與美墨邊境歷史等議題,同時也是一部引人入勝的調查報導,揉雜著教人憤慨的事件、犯罪,由貧致富的真實故事,喜愛強.克拉庫爾(Jon Krakauer,《阿拉斯加之死》《聖母峰之死》)與蘇珊.歐琳(Susan Orlean,《蘭花賊》)的讀者不容錯過。

 

● 作者簡介

Kimball Taylor is the author of Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures, as well as, Drive Fast and Take Chances: Fair Warning from Surfers. He’s a long-time contributor to Surfer Magazine. Taylor has co-authored history books on Pipeline and Jeffreys Bay. Taylor holds a BA in Journalism and a MFA in Creative Writing. He has taught writing courses at San Diego State University and is an alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

 

● 媒體報導

“Kimball Taylor brings us along on a deeply researched and richly detailed journey … and in the process enlightened me with every turn of the page. The Coyote’s Bicycle is not unlike a swift downhill mountain bike ride through no-man’s-land.” ——Eric Blehm, author of Fearless

“Just when you think you know every border story imaginable, Kimball Taylor shows up with this book of madness. It’s an audacious tale told with great elan. I loved everything about this story—mostly because it’s true.” ——Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway: A True Story