The Children of Men

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 352 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571342211

Published:5 Apr 2018

Weight:278g

Dimensions:129 x 198 x 23 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《人类之子》被BBC评选为“塑造世界的100本书”之一！

当末日来临，邪恶的依旧邪恶，伟大的更加伟大。

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地球上25年没有新生儿诞生，人类失去了未来，成为了濒危物种。

末日还是来临了，以一种比大灾害更残酷的方法：人类眼睁睁看着自己的同胞一个个发狂、衰老、死去。

政府还在运作 ，却在独裁者的掌控下，用难以置信的黑暗手段维持社会表面的和平。

但是谁又在乎呢？一切都将在几十年内结束，人类将归于尘土。

但，人类真的只能就这样灭绝？

数千年的文明和野心，只能成为泡影？

如果此时，出现一点新生命的希望，究竟会成为新时代的开始，还是权力的牺牲品？

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当代犯罪小说大师P.D. 詹姆斯引爆欧美之作！

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P.D. 詹姆斯

◆继柯南·道尔、阿加莎·克里斯蒂后，被请进“国际犯罪小说名人堂”的第三位作家

◆被《泰晤士报》评为50位史上伟大的犯罪小说家之一：“英国犯罪小说女王，拥有卓异的智识，且永远不会有才思枯竭的时候”。

◆为数不多的同时拿下“钻石匕首奖”、“大师奖”的犯罪小说大师之一。

◆因文学成就获授大英帝国勋章。

◆连任英国作协主席16年。

The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery.

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.

Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

作者简介

P.D. 詹姆斯出生于英国伦敦牛津，尽管只有高中毕业，但詹姆斯凭借其勤奋自修的学识，与文笔脱俗的创作，得到文学圈极高的赞誉。她三十八岁开始发表作品，四十二岁时完成长篇推理《掩上她的脸》（Cover Her Face，1962），赢得文坛一片赞赏。她的作品《夜莺的尸衣》和《教堂谋杀案》均获得CWA和MWA最佳小说奖。

由于写作有成，她获得许多国际知名文学奖，包括在英国犯罪作家推理协会颁发的、有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的“钻石匕首奖”，并受英国皇室勋封为女男爵，更获颁美国侦探作家协会终身成就奖——“大师奖”，以及“爱伦·坡奖”。

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.