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Solar Bones 原文小說 Mike McCormack
• 入圍2017年布克獎
• 2018年國際 IMPAC 都柏林文學獎得獎作品
據說在諸靈節這天，亡者可能會重新回到這個世界。
Marcus 回過神來發現自己站在家中的廚房，而生活中那些不斷重複的片段與習慣逐漸流入思緒。身為工程師的他思考著人生中的事物，如橋梁、金融體系、婚姻，是如何建構的，又會以何種方式崩壞。最後他卻發現自己不再屬於這個世界......
在這本受到許多獎項肯定的小說中，作者 Mike McCormack 以文字建構主角 Marcus 的內心世界，紀錄了他思考的過程，也藉此展現生活中所有的一切皆環環相扣，微小的決定也能改變人的一生。
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize
Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
An Irish Times Book Club Choice
"With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose, Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happening all around us. One of the best novels of the year." —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic
Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father’s deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway’s thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the “vortex of his being,” surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires.
