他們拿走他的名字,
好讓他可以過一個新的、虛構的人生。
「男孩A」即將離開監獄,
要以一個新名字、一份新工作,展開一個新的人生。
現年二十四歲的他,對這個世界幾乎一無所悉,
但他知道,孩提時代犯下的那樁駭人罪行,是自己心裡永遠揮之不去的陰影。
他想忘卻過去,從頭來過,成為另一個人。
但是,一個善舉,卻讓他的新人生開始分崩離析……
該怎麼做,才能真的彌補曾經犯下的過錯?
否認過去,真的就有辦法去過一個捏造出來的新人生嗎?
本書在 2008 年改編為電影《心靈鐵窗》,同樣獲得極高評價,包括:柏林影展天主教人道精神獎;英國影藝學院最佳導演、最佳男演員、最佳剪輯、最佳攝影;英國丁納德影展最佳影片、最佳導演、劇本、攝影。
★本書中文版《男孩A》由商周出版
A is for Apple. A bad apple.
Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions; he’s about to be released with a new name, a new job, and a new life. At twenty-four, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime.
To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional fl ashes of unexplained violence. To his girlfriend, he is strangely innocent and unreachable. To his case worker, he’s a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria.
And to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: He struggles to start from scratch, forget the past, and become someone else.
A searing and heartfelt novel, Boy A won the Waverton Award for best first novel of 2004; the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for best book in the commonwealth by an author under 35; and The World Book Day Prize 2008 for the most discussion worthy novel by a living writer.
Boy A is now a Cuba Pictures/Channel 4 film starring Andrew Garfield and Peter Mullan. It is directed by John Crowley, produced by Lynn Horsford, and adapted for the screen by Mark O’Rowe.
作者簡介
喬納森.崔格爾(Jonathan Trigell) 英國最值得注目的新銳小說家
1974 年出生於英格蘭韋林加登城(Welwyn Garden City),2002 年於曼徹斯特大學(Manchester University)取得創意寫作碩士學位。
《男孩 A》為崔格爾的初試啼聲之作,榮獲世界書香日最佳書籍、萊思紀念獎以及韋佛頓閱讀獎,已譯為法文、西班牙文、義大利文、荷蘭文、韓文,使得他被譽為英國最值得注目的新銳小說家。