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電影《魔法壞女巫》｜音樂劇《女巫前傳》 原著小說
人是生來就壞嗎？還是有不為人知的原因？請聽聽這個故事，發生在你所熟悉的《綠野仙蹤》之前......
艾法芭．索普一出生就注定和別人不一樣，她天生擁有強大魔法，且...全身是綠的！但在爸媽的眼裡，她並不是可愛的寶貝女兒，而是詭異的怪物。父親對她百般冷落，母親則生下妹妹涅莎蘿絲後去世，涅莎蘿絲天生不良於行，父親卻將過錯推給艾法芭，她的綠色皮膚宛如詛咒招來不幸。
所幸她被熊保母和其他動物陪伴下長大，自小被欺負的艾法芭也不是省油的燈，她學會在這樣的生活中獨立自處，內心充滿正義感且努力學習，希望有一天能夠被奧茲國的大巫師看見，扭轉她的命運。
當艾法芭進入希茲大學就讀，很快就成為全校學生的眼中釘，因為她和校園萬人迷—格琳達‧厄普蘭槓上了！葛琳達長相甜美，有點公主病，和艾法芭幾乎是一對眼就成為宿敵，她嫌棄艾法芭的外表、穿衣和無所謂的態度，卻也忌妒艾法芭的魔法得到教授莫里貝爾夫人的賞識；艾法芭對格琳達的無聊排擠和霸凌感到乏味，認為她跟那些愛慕虛榮的少女一樣無腦幼稚。但兩人可說是不打不相識，從相看兩討厭，經過多次的磨合與衝突後，她們意外成為彼此一生中最重要的朋友。
這時的奧茲國並不平靜，越來越多動物被流放或是消失，學校裡的動物教授們也十分惶恐，本能夠說話、擁有魔法或知識的動物，卻宛如畜生被抓捕關進牢籠，當羊教授迪拉蒙德博士當場被抓走，艾法芭再也無法坐視不管，她決定前往首都翡翠城見大巫師，一方面希望大巫師能解決問題，同時也一圓自小對大巫師的憧憬。格琳達與艾法芭於是一起來到翡翠城，卻發現更加黑暗的秘密，而這個事實即將讓她們各自走向完全不同的道路......
The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.
Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.
But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.
Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
