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Let the Great World Spin

出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)

書林書號：

20127060

作者：

McCann, Colum

定價：

630

會員價：

$536

ISBN：

9780812973990

出版年份：

2009

裝訂：

平裝

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《讓偉大的世界旋轉》

榮獲2011年度的IMPAC都柏林文學獎。

《讓偉大世界旋轉》也是2009年美國國家圖書獎的得主。書名出自丁尼生的名句：「向前，向前，讓我們漫遊，讓偉大的世界永遠旋轉……」，小說透過描寫1970年代紐約的世態萬象，圍繞1974年法國藝人菲力浦．佩蒂在世貿雙子星大樓之前走鋼索一事，暗寓了30多年後的「9.11」事件。

It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.

Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of five novels and two collections of stories and has won numerous international literary awards for his writing. His film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for a short-film Oscar in 2005. Zoli, Dancer and This Side of Brightness were international bestsellers and his latest novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the 2009 National Book Award. His fiction has been published in twenty-seven languages. Colum McCann lives in New York.