元素（《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》作者新作） The Elements

基本信息

by John Boyne (Author)

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld

Imprint:Doubleday

ISBN:9780857528889

Published:9 Sep 2025

Weight:700g

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

人类生命受水、土、火、气这四种元素的支配。它们是我们生存的基础。它们滋养着我们，也挑战着我们。

在《元素》中，约翰·博因创造了一个生动的万花筒来反映这种矛盾：四个相互交织的叙事，每个叙事都从促成者、共犯、加害者和受害者的角度，对因果关系提供了不同的解读。

从一位逃避过去的母亲，到一位正在接受审判的年轻足球明星，到一位努力克服童年创伤的成功外科医生，再到一位与儿子一起踏上蜕变之旅的父亲，这四条线索交织在一起，构成了一幅交织人生的锦绣图。

作为博因迄今为止具雄心的作品，《元素》既是一部引人入胜的戏剧，也是对人类经验中固有断层线的动人审视。

他用简洁、引人入胜的散文，以非凡的同理心和坚定的诚实来探讨这个复杂的主题，每一步都挑战我们去面对我们自己对我们是谁以及是什么让我们变成这样的观念。

Human life is governed by the elements water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.

In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.

From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.

Boyne s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience.

In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own conceptions of who we are and what made us that way.

作者简介

约翰·博因创作了十五部小说、六部少儿小说以及一部短篇小说集。他2006年出版的小说《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》全球销量超过1100万册，并被改编成电影、戏剧、芭蕾舞和歌剧。他的许多国际畅销书包括《心灵的无形愤怒》和《通往天际的梯子》。他曾四次荣获爱尔兰图书奖，其中包括2022年的年度作家奖，以及许多其他国际文学奖项。他的小说已被翻译成六十种语言出版。

John Boyne is the author of fifteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in sixty languages.