罪责 奥普拉读书俱乐部2025年精选 Culpability

基本信息

by Bruce Holsinger (Author)

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages

Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Imprint:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

ISBN:9781787706057

Published:11 Sep 2025

Weight:362g

Dimensions:210 x 137 x 32 (mm)

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书籍简介

“一本令人无法抗拒的焦虑之书。”——《华盛顿邮报》“一部令人震惊的家庭剧。”——《纽约时报》“我被深深吸引，直到一句令人震惊的句子！”——奥普拉·温弗瑞当卡西迪-肖一家的无人驾驶面包车与迎面而来的汽车相撞身亡时，17岁的查理坐在驾驶座上。他的父亲诺亚在他身旁，后座上坐着他和弟弟妹妹们，还有他的母亲洛雷莱——一位人工智能研究员——正沉浸在工作中。在切萨皮克湾为期一周的度假期间，卡西迪-肖一家一直在努力应对这起事故带来的道德后果，与此同时，警方的例行调查也开始浮出水面。

洛雷莱越来越古怪的行为让她的丈夫怀疑这起事件背后可能隐藏着更黑暗的真相，而科技亿万富翁丹尼尔·莫奈（他与洛雷莱之间有着一段神秘的渊源）的到来，更是坚定了他们之间的怀疑。当查理爱上莫奈的十几岁的女儿时，卡西迪和肖一家之间的紧张关系达到了临界点。《罪责》是一部心理社会惊悚片，也是一部扣人心弦的家庭剧，它探索了一个由聊天机器人和自动驾驶汽车等非人类力量全新塑造的世界，迫使我们反思自身与人工智能的关系，以及我们每个人实际上都应承担的微妙责任。

"An irresistibly anxious book."-The Washington Post“A family drama with a shocking twist."-The New York Times"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!"-Oprah WinfreyWhen the Cassidy-Shaws’ driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat. His father, Noah, is beside him, and in the back with his younger siblings is his mother, Lorelei—a renowned AI researcher—who is lost in her work. During a weeklong retreat on the Chesapeake Bay, the Cassidy-Shaws wrestle with the moral fallout of the crash as a routine police enquiry starts to unravel.

As Lorelei’s increasingly odd behaviour stirs her husband’s suspicions that there may be a darker truth behind the incident, the arrival of tech billionaire Daniel Monet (who has a mysterious history with Lorelei) cements them. When Charlie falls for Monet’s teenage daughter, tensions among the Cassidy-Shaws reach breaking point. A psychosocial thriller and a propulsive family drama, Culpability explores a world newly shaped by non-human forces such as chatbots and autonomous cars, and forces us to examine our own relationship to artificial intelligence, and the nuanced ways in which we are all, in fact, culpable.

作者简介

布鲁斯·霍尔辛格著有四部小说，包括《流离失所》和《天才学校》，以及多部非虚构作品。他的著作曾获科罗拉多图书奖、约翰·赫特·费舍尔奖、菲利普·布雷特奖、约翰·尼古拉斯·布朗奖、现代语言协会处女作奖等。他的散文和评论曾发表于《纽约时报》和《名利场》杂志，并荣获古根海姆奖学金。他在弗吉尼亚大学英语系任教，专攻中世纪文学和现代批判性思想。

Bruce Holsinger is the author of four novels, including The Displacements and The Gifted School, and many works of non-fiction. His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association’s Prize for a First Book, and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the department of English at the University of Virginia, where he specialises in medieval literature and modern critical thought.