諾貝爾文學獎得主童妮.摩里森帶有詩意的虐心之作
在尋根的旅途上,重拾失落的勇氣!
故事主角Frank Money是個易怒、自我放逐的韓戰退役軍人,在戰場上飽受折磨後,帶著身心創傷疲累地回到美國。
家對Frank而言,就像外太空的星球般遙不可及,他習慣自己一個人孤絕地生存。然而,當得知濫用藥物的妹妹身染重病,他還是勉為其難地負起做兄長的責任,陪妹妹回到家鄉喬治亞休養治療。
在從小生長的地方,Frank重新省視童年時光以及參戰歲月,那些使他一度懷疑自己、放棄自己的種種不堪回憶,在這許多許多年以後,竟慢慢轉化成一股無形的力量,幫助他走出低谷,重拾起失落已久的勇氣,堅強地正視眼前的人生!(文/博客來編譯)
America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home.