我们在黑暗中能走多远 How High We Go in the Dark

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 304 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN:9781526637178

Published:9 Feb 2023

Weight:216g

Dimensions:128 x 198 x 23 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

Cliff Miyashiro博士来到北极圈，继续他刚刚去世的女儿的研究，却发现了一种从融化的冻土中新出土的病毒。所释放的瘟疫改变了地球上几代人的生活。

然而，即使在努力对抗这种破坏性力量的同时，人类仍顽强地以无数种令人感动和不断创新的方式坚持下去。在这些适应新常态的人中，有一个有抱负的喜剧演员，受雇于一个为身患绝症的儿童设计的主题公园，他爱上了一个拼命想让儿子活下去的母亲；一个科学家，在未能从瘟疫中救出自己的儿子后，在他的一个试验品--猪出现人类语言时，获得了做父亲的第二次机会。一个男人在从自己的昏迷中恢复过来后，为他的邻居们策划了一个街区聚会，这些邻居们醒来后发现只有他们的家人幸存下来；还有一个丧偶的画家和她十几岁的孙女，他们必须踏上宇宙的征程，寻找新的母星。从殡仪馆的摩天大楼到死人旅馆，《我们在黑暗中走多远》讲述了一群错综复杂的人物，跨越了数百年的时间，人类努力恢复世界的微妙平衡。

这是一个不可动摇的希望的故事，它跨越了文学的界限，为我们提供了一个通过无尽的爱、复原力和重塑能力来重建自己的世界。

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter s research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations.

Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects a pig develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families; and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world.

This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention.

作者简介

Sequoia Nagamatsu是一位日裔美国作家，也是致力于创新散文的在线季刊Psychopomp杂志的执行编辑。他来自夏威夷和旧金山湾区，拥有南伊利诺伊大学的创意写作硕士学位和格林奈尔学院的人类学学士学位。他的作品曾出现在Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Fairy Tale Review和Tin House等出版物上。他是获奖短篇小说集《Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone》的作者，并在圣奥拉夫学院和雷尼尔写作工作室的低度实习MFA项目中教授创意写作。他目前与他的妻子、猫和一只名叫卡尔维诺的机器狗住在明尼苏达。

Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. His work has appeared in such publications as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Fairy Tale Review, and Tin House. He is the author of the award-winning short story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone and teaches creative writing at St. Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife, cat, and a robot dog named Calvino.