小說/散文

Dig
出版社： Penguin Putnam Inc.
書林書號：
20261931
作者：
King, A. S.
定價：
630
會員價：
$536
ISBN：
9781101994917
出版年份：
2020
裝訂：
精裝
總頁數：
0
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【在盤根錯節的糾葛中，掙扎挖掘出過去的毒瘤】Dig, by A. S. King

　　這本書讀來可能沉重、不安，因為它寫的是沉痛的真實，這也是作者想呈現的方式——瘋狂、怪異，作者以像斧頭般銳利、沉重與帶有怒氣卻清晰冷酷地筆觸，觸及人類社會中最接近底部的黑暗與渾沌；種族仇恨、成長中面臨的暴力與束縛、世代間的衝突與互不諒解，家庭的失能與陳年偏見狹隘的滯悶。

　　作者將五名青少年的人生故事與敘事觀點，以散文形式分段交錯，來自社會不同狀況的他們，有著不同的個性與際遇，看似隨機零碎的排列。讓讀者在一團混濁、凌亂的夢境中，徒手挖掘、攀爬；在超現實的意識中，逐漸摸索出五個分支血脈的共同來源。他們與父母、父母與他們的父母之間，所有埋藏在歷史塵土中的羞恥與秘密，一層層的衝突和著內在外在的暴力對待。這些苦澀的源流就像在古老的年代種下毒果，蔓延至世世代代。而他們將努力在盤根錯節的腐敗污漬中，掙扎地成長出不同以往的結果。


Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal
普林玆文學獎

"King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them.... [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future." (Horn Book starred review)

"I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket."

Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions, and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account - wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says.

But for the Hemmings cousins, "thriving" feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.

With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

延伸閱讀

Dig

書林書號：20260910

作者：King, A. S.

ISBN：9781101994931

會員價：327

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