守夜（Lincoln in the Bardo作者新作） Vigil

基本信息

Publisher：Random House

Publication date：January 27, 2026

Language：English

Print length：192 pages

ISBN-10：0525509623

ISBN-13：978-0525509622

Item Weight：1.25 pounds

Dimensions：5.5 x 0.53 x 8.25 inches

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书籍简介

这部扣人心弦的小说出自《纽约时报》畅销书、布克奖得主、《林肯在中阴界》的作者之手，故事发生在一位石油公司执行官生命的z后时刻，她陪伴在他身边，见证他从尘世走向彼岸。

吉尔·“娃娃”·布莱恩并非初次坠向大地，在坠落的过程中，她不断重塑自身，甚至连她x喜爱的黑色高跟鞋都清晰可见。她俯冲向她新的“守护对象”，又一个她必须引导进入来世的灵魂，头朝下落在他那座华丽豪宅的环形车道上。

自她自己去世以来，她已经履行了这项神圣的职责343次。通常情况下，她所守护的对象在生命的z后时刻都得到了极大的安慰。但她很快发现，这次的“守护对象”与众不同。权势滔天的K·J·布恩不会得到安慰，因为他没有什么可后悔的。他的一生精彩绝伦、无比辉煌，而世界也因此变得更加美好。难道不是吗？

《守夜》带领我们跌宕起伏地穿梭于一位复杂男人的z后狂野之夜。来访者络绎不绝（既有世俗的，也有超凡脱俗的；既有生者的，也有死者的），他们都渴望清算。鸟儿在垂死之人的房间里盘旋；一头黑色的小牛在沙发上吃草；一位来自遥远干旱村庄的村民突然出现；两位几十年前的石油生意伙伴带着令人不寒而栗的计划现身，为布恩的死后生活谋划着。

乔治·桑德斯以他一贯的智慧、诙谐和想象力，探讨了我们这个时代严峻的问题——企业贪婪的威胁、资本主义的代价、进步带来的环境危机——并在此过程中，编织了一个涵盖生死、善恶以及救赎这一棘手问题的故事。

An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next

Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.

She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn’t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it?

Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future.

With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time—the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress—and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.

作者简介

乔治·桑德斯著有十三本书，包括荣获布克奖的小说《林肯在中阴界》，以及五部短篇小说集，例如入围美国国家图书奖的《十二月十日》，以及近期出版的短篇小说集《解放日》（该书被美国前总统奥巴马评为2022年十大喜爱书籍之一）。桑德斯的三部作品——《田园诗》、《十二月十日》和《林肯在中阴界》——入选《纽约时报》评选的“21世纪百佳图书”。桑德斯在Substack平台上主持颇受欢迎的“故事俱乐部”，该俱乐部源于他撰写的关于俄罗斯短篇小说《雨中池塘游泳》的著作。2013年，他被《时代》杂志评为全球具影响力百人之一。他目前在雪城大学创意写作系任教。

George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize, and five collections of stories, including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2022). Three of Saunders’s books—Pastoralia, Tenth of December, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for The New York Times’s list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.