书名：Moonglow月光狂想曲 作者：Michael Chabon 出版社名称：Fourth Estate 出版时间：2017 语种：英文 ISBN：9780007548927 商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm 包装：平装 页数：448★探寻祖父辈的记忆，回溯经历二战的美国“伟大一代”的人生 ★书写一个人与一个世代的传奇，见证人类历史黑暗与荣光的时代 ★塞林格接班人，普利策小说奖得主，星云、雨果、轨迹、侧面四项科幻大奖得主，好莱坞编剧 ★美国国家书评人协会奖提名，卡内基文学奖提名，索菲·布罗迪奖章（美国年度杰出犹太文学专项奖） ★《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》榜单推荐 ★美国亚马逊年度好书、iBooks年度小说 ★游走于严肃文学与通俗文学的两极，打破纯文学与类型文学的人造隔离 ★用《阿甘正传》的方式写《大鱼》式的故事 ★回忆录式的小说，跨越真实与虚构的边界 Moonglow《月光狂想曲》倾诉了一个人与一个世代的传奇。1989年，当德国人欢呼着推倒柏林墙的时候，迈克尔·夏邦飞往加利福尼亚州奥克兰的母亲家，陪伴患有癌症的外公度过生命走向终结的时光。止痛药打破了外公少言寡语的习惯，在接下来的一周，他不时回忆起自己一生的际遇，一点一点地揭开埋藏已久的秘密……那一层光虽然微弱，但始终都在，照亮他们和我们的时代。 媒体评论： 他娴熟的手法和有力的笔触中，饱含着一种暗中燃烧着的力量。这力量诠释了我们这个动荡、复杂却又弥足珍贵的世界。——《书单》 深刻动人、引人入胜的杰作。——《人物》 绝对精彩……不论从文字风格、写作技巧，还是内容情感上，《月光狂想曲》都叹为观止。 ——iBooks评论 夏邦的作品一如既往地让人眼前一亮。——《娱乐周刊》A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Telegraph Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Book of the Year • A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year • A Slate Book of the Year Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of ‘the American Century’, Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week. Review ‘The product of a writer in full command of his novelistic faculties … Not only probably Chabon’s greatest, but an example of a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017’ --The Times ‘Funny, moving and tremendously entertaining, this is a novel about the narratives we construct for ourselves and the need we have for them, one that confirms Chabon not just as an irresistible tale-teller, but also a master’ --Daily Mail ‘A masterclass in storytelling’ --Independent ‘Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and versatility of the novel’ --Observer ‘Chabon’s storytelling is so characteristically exuberant, the narratives so unfailingly rich’ --Telegraph ‘It doesn’t add up to anything,” stated the grandfather, as he looks back at his life. “It doesn’t mean anything.” Luminous with love, Moonglow is here to show us that it does’ --Irish Independent ‘Chabon is virtuoso’ --Irish Times ‘Moving, wry, thoroughly entertaining’ --FT ‘Much of Moonglow feels Dickensian in style, and as with Dickens it is rich in sentiment. This is to the novel’s credit … Exquisite’ --TLS ‘Comparable to the young Paul Auster … It’s as intriguing as a locked room mystery, but in keeping with Chabon’s canon, also has a heart the size of an elephant’ --Big Issue ‘A wondrous book that celebrates the power of family bonds and the slipperiness of memory … A thoroughly enchanting story’ --The Washington Post ‘A rich and exotic confection … This book is beautiful’ --New York Times ‘A poignant, engrossing triumph’ --People ‘Chabon is one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists… In Moonglow, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervour’ --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 外公在费城南部的犹太社区度过了不羁的少年时代，他四处游历，称雄百里；德雷克塞尔理工学院毕业后，他加入美国陆军工程兵团，差点炸毁弗朗西斯·斯科特·基大桥，却因此被战略情报局揽至麾下，被派往欧洲大陆执行“回形针计划”——追踪可为美国效力的纳粹科学家，冯·布劳恩。这位V-2火箭的设计者与他一样憧憬太空，却践踏着无辜者的生命攀上通往月球的天梯。战后，外公回归普通人的生活，爱上了神秘迷人的法裔外婆，他们的爱情炽热、坚贞却不无艰难。尽管他精通处理机器故障，却始终对被战争撕扯得支离破碎的她束手无策，只能借由航天模型兑现对她的承诺——带她去月球寻找庇护所。 外公的一生见证了人类历史黑暗与荣光的时代，从第二次世界大战到美国太空探索的狂飙时期，再到“美国世纪”之暮，人生充斥着冒险与战争、情欲与真爱，目睹了科学的浪漫与残暴、人类创造性与毁灭性的力量。 “你告诉我的一切都是真的，对吧？” “嗯，全部来自我的记忆。除此之外，我不保证。” 迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon，1963年—），当代美国作家，被誉为“塞林格接班人”。1963年生于华盛顿特区犹太裔家庭，先后就读于卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学，并在加州大学欧文分校获得创意写作硕士学位。夏邦集普利策小说奖得主，星云、雨果、轨迹、侧面四项科幻大奖得主，好莱坞编剧于一身，曾任电影《蜘蛛侠2》与《异星战场》的编剧。 Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels – including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union – two collections of short stories, and one other work of non-fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children. This is how I heard the story. When Alger Hiss got out of prison, he had a hard time finding a job. He was a graduate of Harvard Law School, had clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes and helped charter the United Nations, yet he was also a convicted perjurer and notorious as a tool of international communism. He had published a memoir, but it was dull stuff and no one wanted to read it. His wife had left him. He was broke and hopeless. In the end one of his remaining friends took pity on the bastard and pulled a string. Hiss was hired by a New York firm that manufactured and sold a kind of fancy barrette made from loops of piano wire. Feathercombs, Inc., had gotten off to a good start but had come under attack from a bigger competitor that copied its designs, infringed on its trademarks, and undercut its pricing. Sales had dwindled. Payroll was tight. In order to make room for Hiss, somebody had to be let go. In an account of my grandfather’s arrest, in the Daily News for May 25, 1957, he is described by an unnamed coworker as “the quiet type.” To his fellow salesmen at Feathercombs, he was a homburg on the coat rack in the corner. He was the hardest-working but least effective member of the Feathercombs sales force. On his lunch breaks he holed up with a sandwich and the latest issue of Sky and Telescope or Aviation Week. It was known that he drove a Crosley, had a foreign- born wife and a teenage daughter and lived with them somewhere in deepest Bergen County. Before the day of his arrest, my grandfather had distinguished himself to his coworkers only twice. During Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, when the office radio failed, my grandfather had repaired it with a vacuum tube prized from the interior of the telephone switchboard. And a Feathercombs copywriter reported once bumping into my grandfather at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Miliburn, where the foreign wife was, of all things, starring as Serafina in The Rose Tattoo. Beyond this nobody knew much about my grandfather, and that seemed to be the way he preferred it. People had long since given up trying to engage him in conversation. He had been known to smile but not to laugh. If he held political opinions—if he held opinions of any kind—they remained a mystery around the offices of Feathercombs, Inc. It was felt he could be fired without damage to morale. Shortly after nine o’clock on the morning of the twenty-fourth, the president of Feathercombs heard a disturbance outside his office, where a quick-wined girl had been positioned to filter out creditors and tax inspectors. A male voice spoke with urgency that scaled rapidly to anger. The intercom on the president’s desk buzzed and buzzed again. He heard a chime of glass breaking. it sounded like a telephone when you slammed down the receiver. Before the president could rise from his chair to see what the matter was, my grandfather muscled into the room. He brandished a black handset (in those days a blunt instrument) that trailed three feet of frayed cord.