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The Heart Goes Last
混亂的世界裡，依然有人試圖建立新秩序，而在這座城市，歡迎各位一同共襄盛舉。
Stan 和 Charmaine 是一對在都市打拼的年輕夫妻，時代性毀滅的經融海嘯並沒有放過他們，長期失業、破產、只能住臥在小客車上使他們決定簽下賣身契，搬進一座嶄新的城市換取 「新生活」。
所謂的新生活，不只配備新房子、新工作甚至還有新名字，他們必須每個月交替兩種不同的身分生活，一邊是不愁吃穿的中產階級夫妻，另一邊則是入監服刑，而 Stan 和 Charmaine 被規定對於雙方在另一邊的名字則要保守秘密不可讓彼此知道。一開始，這樣的新生活對已吃盡貧困苦頭的夫妻來說似乎很值得，但瘋狂、失序的種子卻已悄然種下...
#反烏托邦 #科幻
ISBN: 9781101912362
In the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year—if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months…
Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart.
