另一个山谷 Scott Alexander Howard 推理小说 英文原版 The Other Valley

基本信息

Format:Hardback 304 pages

Publisher:Atria Books

Imprint:Atria Books

ISBN:9781668015476

Published:27 Feb 2024

Weight:481g

Dimensions:229 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

为大卫-米切尔（David Mitchell）、露丝-奥泽奇（Ruth Ozeki）和石黑一雄的粉丝们准备的这本优雅而令人振奋的文学推理小说，讲述了一个与世隔绝的小镇被自己的过去和未来所包围，一个年轻女孩发现了两位来自边境另一端的年迈访客：她所爱男孩的悲痛欲绝的父母。

16 岁的奥迪尔是一个笨拙、文静的女孩，她正在争夺一个梦寐以求的理事会席位。如果她获得了这个职位，她将决定谁可以越过小镇戒备森严的边境。另一边，是同样的山谷，同样的小镇。只是在东边，小镇的时间提前了二十年。西边的小镇则落后二十年。这些小镇在荒野上无休止地重复着。

当奥迪尔认出两个她本不该见到的访客时，她意识到她的朋友埃德姆的父母被护送着从未来穿越边境，进行哀悼之旅，来看望他们的儿子，而他在奥迪尔的现在还活着。

埃德姆才华横溢、风趣幽默，是真正能看到奥迪尔的人，但他即将离世。为了保护时间线，奥迪尔发誓要保守秘密，现在她成了理事会的头号候选人。然而，她却发现自己越来越接近那个命中注定的男孩，这危及了她的整个未来。

For fans of David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.

Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness.

When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.

Edme—who is brilliant, funny, and the person to truly see Odile—is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future.

作者简介

斯科特·亚历山大·霍华德住在不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华。 他拥有多伦多大学哲学博士学位，并曾在哈佛大学担任博士后研究员，他的研究重点是记忆、情感和文学之间的关系。

Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature.