《林肯在中陰》（Lincoln in the Bardo ）與《十二月十日》（Tenth of December）的作者，喬治桑德斯（George Saunders）擅以幽默風趣的文風，談論自然與歷史等諸多主題，融合魔幻與寫實的敘事手法，真假難分。這次為讀者帶來嶄新的創作，他的狐狸語與狐狸們的白日夢。
一隻小狐狸在月光下、樹叢旁，細細聆聽屋子裡傳出來，孩子們的床邊故事。一字一句，牠猛然間開竅了，漸漸地用自己的方法理解聲音背後的涵義；隨著模仿與揣摩，牠開始有了自己的語言。
牠不可自拔地對人產生好奇，但危機就要來了——超市開發案危及牠的生存空間，牠要如何運用新技能，確保牠的族群得到安寧？
不愧被紐約時報譽為時代的寫手，喬治桑德斯這部作品充分反映人與自然的問題；用寓言式的手法凸顯並且質問：我們人可以更溫柔地對待自然嗎?
用超乎想像的敘事手法、夢境的預言，表達人與自然共存平衡的目標。從狐狸習得語言的荒謬設定與白日夢中不可思議的情節，虛幻與真實，故事逐一進行著。
只要記得，整個故事的敘事者是隻小狐狸，牠嘗試學習語言與人類溝通。而人又該如何學習與動物溝通？（文 / 博客來編譯）
An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal
Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children’s bedtime stories, he has learned to speak ’Yuman’.
The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is ’danjur’ on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pack’s food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.
“Warm, kindhearted and radical ... Such delicacy, such serious wit” – Max Porter,
“Filled with wit and sadness … Immensely powerful, extraordinarily human” – Guardian
“George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time” – Khaled Hosseini,
“A morally passionate, serious writer ... He will be read long after these times have passed” – Zadie Smith,
“He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We’re lucky to have him” – Jonathan Franzen,
“An astoundingly tuned voice – graceful, dark, authentic and funny” – Thomas Pynchon,
“Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice ... Scary, hilarious and unforgettable” – Tobias Wolff,
“There is no one better, no one more essential” – Dave Eggers,
“Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does” – Junot Diaz,
“Saunders is a true original - restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane” – Jennifer Egan,
“No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised” – Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“Surreal and puncturing” – Margaret Atwood,
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