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Death Valley
Melissa Broder
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2023-10-03
主題
Fiction / Magical Realism
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Humorous / General
ISBN
1668024896
9781668024898
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jHWqEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Named a Best Book of 2023 by
The
New York Times
("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"),
Oprah Daily
("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"),
Vanity Fair
("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!
From the visionary author of
Milk Fed
and
The Pisces
, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (
Publishers Weekly
, starred review).
In Melissa Broder’s astonishingly profound new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow—for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path discovered on a nearby hike.
Out along the sun-scorched trail, the narrator encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious, and poignant.
Death Valley
is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest, and is “a journey unlike any you’ve read before” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of
Friday Black
).