Transcendent Kingdom

基本信息

Format Paperback | 288 pages

Dimensions 140 x 234 x 23mm | 408g

Publication date 12 Oct 2020

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Statement International edition

ISBN13 9781984899767

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

入围2021年女性小说短名单

**来自《回家之路》的畅销书作者雅阿·吉亚西**

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畅销书作品《回家之路》的后续之作

一段关于加纳移民的故事，看他们如何适应美国社会。

吉弗迪(Gifty)是位斯坦福神经科学的博士候选人，出色的神经回路研究者。她也是这个移民家庭出生在美国的小孩，和有忧郁症的母亲一同住在阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔(Huntsville)。长年和母亲对抗情绪问题，不时还想起高中时过世的哥哥纳纳(Nana)。哥哥本来是名运动健将，却意外地因为脚踝受伤开始依赖止痛药，因为摄入过量而逝世。这样的背景让吉芙蒂投入科学研究，试图找出忧郁症与药物成瘾的关联，让悲剧不再发生。

吉弗迪一方面试图从科学的角度了解哥哥的死亡，另一方面她转向从小就怀有的信仰，寻求心灵的平静与精神的救赎。科学与信仰是否能并存在忙碌的现代生活中呢？

《超验王国》是一部关于科学和爱的小说，它深刻刻画了一个饱受抑郁和悲伤折磨的加纳移民家庭的故事。文笔精美、情感炽烈，这部作品是吉亚西现象级的处女座作品备受期待又饱富力量的续篇制作。

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of aoverdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

媒体推荐

"Gyasi有时会让我想起其他处理美国移民经历的作家Jhumpa Lahiri和李逸云，特别是....。 正如奇玛曼达-恩戈齐-阿迪奇或加纳裔美国短篇小说家纳纳-夸梅-阿德吉-布雷尼亚的作品一样，这部小说中的非洲移民在某种程度上远离了美国的种族主义，他们是受害者，但也是局外人，对当地人奇特的盲目性感到惊讶......精彩......《超验王国》用《回家》的炽热辉煌换来了另一种荣耀，更加细微，难以命名。"

--内尔-弗罗登伯格，《纽约时报》书评 

这部小说充满了精彩的揭示性时刻，有时很滑稽，常常很凄美....[Gifty是]挑衅性的活力。

詹姆斯-伍德，《纽约客》杂志

"像激光一样......。这是一部关于家庭之爱、损失、归属和信仰的强有力的、完全没有感情色彩的小说，它的重点更突出，但与前作一样大胆，在我看来甚至更成功[《超验王国》]对意义的问题有着强烈的关注。

萨姆-萨克斯，《华尔街日报》

"一本光芒四射的书......深刻的科学和精神思考，让人想起理查德-鲍尔斯和玛丽莲-罗宾逊的作品。智慧和愤怒的双螺旋线在安静的线条中缠绕......感谢上帝，我们有了这部杰出的小说。"

罗恩-查尔斯，《华盛顿邮报》

"一部关于家庭、信仰和身份的隐秘的破坏性小说，既是哲学的，也是个人的。这是加西勇敢的讲故事，在范围、语气和风格上与她2016年的处女作《回家》有很大不同。那也是杰出的文学作品，就像《超验王国》的内部空间一样宽广......加西在短短两本书中展示的范围是惊人的。"

今日美国

" 优雅的......深入到哲学领域，复杂地探索了我们在没有确定的答案的情况下生活的意义，这些谜团伤害了我们。 贾西的散文有分寸的克制使故事中的挑战性问题更加有力。"

旧金山纪事报

"有望成为秋季的文学事件"。

娱乐周刊

"我想说，《超验王国》是我们这个时代的一部小说（确实如此），但它的意义远不止于此。它是一部适合所有时代的小说。书中所包含的辉煌、心灵、洞察力和光辉，为我们其他人撑起了一盏明灯"。 

安-帕切特

"《超验王国》在你看完之后，会让你久久不能忘怀。"

真正简单

"细致入微，心理复杂......这本小说既是对移民经历的生动再现，又是对个人内心挣扎的敏锐勾勒，在这两方面都取得了出色的成功。"

《出版商周刊》[星评]。

"令人难以忘怀......。《超验王国》有一个广阔的范围，进入了新鲜的、相关的领域，就像书名一样，它暗示了一个超越我们所居住的生活的更好的世界"。

BookPage [星级评论]

"加西的z新作品具有灵巧的灵活性和不可否认的艺术性，是对顽强生存的雄辩审视。"

书单

"Gyasi sometimes reminds me of other writers who ve addressed the immigrant experience in America Jhumpa Lahiri and Yiyun Li in particular....As in the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or the Ghanaian-American short-story writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the African immigrants in this novel exist at a certain remove from American racism, victims but also outsiders, marveling at the peculiar blindnesses of the locals...brilliant...Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name."

--Nell Freudenberger, The New York Times Book Review 

The novel is full of brilliantly revealing moments, sometimes funny, often poignant....[Gifty is] provokingly vital.

James Wood, The New Yorker

"Laser-like... A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful [Transcendent Kingdom] is burningly dedicated to the question of meaning The pressure created gives her novel a hard, beautiful, diamantine luster.

Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

"A book of blazing brilliance... of profound scientific and spiritual reflection that recalls the works of Richard Powers and Marilynne Robinson... A double helix of wisdom and rage twists through the quiet lines...Thank God, we have this remarkable novel."

Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"A stealthily devastating novel of family, faith and identity that s as philosophical as it is personal... It s bravura storytelling by Gyasi, so different in scope, tone and style from her 2016 debut Homegoing. That, too, was brilliant literature, as expansive as Transcendent Kingdom is interior...The range Gyasi displays in just two books is staggering."

USA Today

" Elegant... burrows into the philosophical, exploring with complexity what it might mean for us to live without firm answers to the mysteries that wound us... The measured restraint of Gyasi s prose makes the story s challenging questions all the more potent."

The San Francisco Chronicle

"Poised to be the literary event of the fall."

Entertainment Weekly

"I would say that Transcendent Kingdom is a novel for our time (and it is) but it is so much more than that. It is a novel for all times. The splendor and heart and insight and brilliance contained in the pages holds up a light the rest of us can follow."  

Ann Patchett

"[Transcendent Kingdom] will stay with you long after you ve finished it."

Real Simple

"Meticulous, psychologically complex...At once a vivid evocation of the immigrant experience and a sharp delineation of an individual s inner struggle, the novel brilliantly succeeds on both counts."

Publishers Weekly [starred review]

"Gyasi s wise second novel pivots toward intimacy... In precise prose, Gyasi creates an ache of recognition, especially for readers knowledgeable about the wreckage of addiction. Still, she leavens this nonlinear novel with sly humor... The author is astute about childhood grandiosity and a pious girl s deep desire to be good; she conveys in brief strokes the notched, nodding hook ofoblivion...final chapter that gives readers a taste of hard-won deliverance."

Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

"Unforgettable... Transcendent Kingdom has an expansive scope that ranges into fresh, relevant territories much like the title, which suggests a better world beyond the life we inhabit."

BookPage [starred review]

"With deft agility andundeniable artistry, Gyasi s latest is an eloquent examination of resilient survival."

Booklist

作者简介

雅阿·吉亚西出生在加纳，在阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔长大。她拥有斯坦福大学的英语学士学位和爱荷华作家工作室的艺术硕士学位，获得了院长的研究生研究奖学金。她住在布鲁克林。

YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.