The Wall

Paperback: 288 pages

Publication date: 17 Jan 2019

出版社: Faber and Faber

语种：English

ISBN-10: 0571298737

ISBN-13: 9780571298730

产品尺寸及重量: 129 x 198 x 17mm | 229g

书籍简介

英国《金融时报》和《标准晚报》年度*佳图书

* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year *

2019年布克奖入围名单

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 *

入选2020年奥威尔政治小说奖

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *

Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights.

The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else.

He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night. But somewhere, in the dark cave of his mind, he thinks: wouldn’t it be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if you had to fight for your life?

John Lanchester’s thrilling, hypnotic new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. It’s about a broken world you will recognise as your own—and about what might be found when all is lost.

作者简介

约翰·兰彻斯特（John Lanchester，1962年2月25日－）是一位英国记者和作家，出生于德国汉堡，在香港长大，受教育于英国格瑞萨姆学院和牛津大学圣约翰学院。兰彻斯特在远东长大成人，他在英国接受完教育之后，开始在企鹅出版集团担任总编辑，之后他成为了《伦敦书评》的编辑成员。与此同时，他还为众多报纸和杂志攥稿，譬如像《格兰塔》与《纽约客》，此外，他也担任过《观察家报》的美食家及《每日电讯报》的专栏作家。

John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and Capital, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is married, has two children and lives in London.