操场 普利策奖得主 2024年布克奖长名单 Playground

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Imprint:Hutchinson Heinemann

ISBN:9781529154320

Published:26 Sep 2024

Weight:350g

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面数据仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

★入围 2024 年布克奖

★普利策奖得主、布克奖入围者《故事的终结》和《困惑》的作者的一部强有力的新小说

★“还有什么是理查德·鲍尔斯写不出来的吗？这里的世界是完整的、诱人的、充满希望的。文字就像海洋。广阔、神秘、深邃、生机勃勃”——珀西瓦尔·埃弗雷特

★“一段非凡的沉浸式旅程，穿越以神秘方式联系在一起的生活——扣人心弦、令人震惊和振奋”——艾玛·多诺霍

拉菲和托德是一所精英高中的两个截然相反的人，他们因一款有三千年历史的棋盘游戏而结缘。这为他们的生活奠定了基础：拉菲将迷失在文学中，而托德的作品将带来惊人的人工智能突破。

在另一边，埃维·博利厄（Evie Beaulieu）被绑在世界上一个水中呼吸器上，沉入蒙特利尔游泳池底部；伊娜·阿罗伊塔（Ina Aroita）在太平洋对岸的海军基地长大，艺术是她的家。

所有这些人都在法属波利尼西亚历史悠久的马卡泰亚岛上相识，这里是人类下一次伟大冒险的起点：一项将漂浮的自治城市送入公海的计划。随着海上家园的居民们越来越近，埃维将如何玩这场不断展开的海洋游戏？伊娜会参与破坏活动吗？托德和拉菲现在已经疏远，但他们仍然在竞争：托德在研究一个重新划定人类永生界限的想法时崩溃了，而拉菲和居民们必须决定是否要批准他们海岸上的新项目并永远改变他们的家园。

《操场》以世界上大型海洋为背景，探索了我们尚未殖民的一个荒野，交织了技术和环境的深刻主题，并以只有理查德·鲍尔斯才能做到的方式深入探索了我们共同的人性。

“鲍尔斯是一位大师，他善于将我们这个时代的重要主题——从对海洋的威胁、气候变化到人工智能——转化为引人入胜、极具现实意义的书籍，这些书籍充满了心理洞察力和对大自然的深深敬畏。这种科学与情感的雄辩之舞使他成为我们优秀的故事讲述者之一。《操场》精彩、迷人且重要——也是我今年读过的精彩的书。”——安德里亚·伍尔夫

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024

A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT

'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA DONOGHUE

Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.

All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new project on their shores and change their home forever.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

‘Powers is a master of taking important topics of our times – from threats to our oceans and climate change to AI – and turning them into riveting and fiercely relevant books imbued with psychological insight and a deep awe for nature. This eloquent dance of the scientific and emotional makes him one of our finest story tellers. PLAYGROUND is brilliant, captivating and important – and the best book I’ve read this year’ ANDREA WULF

More praise for Richard Powers:

'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN

'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER

'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY

'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES

'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

作者简介

理查德·鲍尔斯已出版了十三部小说。他是麦克阿瑟奖获得者，并获得了美国国家图书奖。他凭借《树冠之上》获得普利策小说奖，他的新小说《困惑》入围布克奖。他住在Great Smoky 山。

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.