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A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball
其他書名
A Novel
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015-07-21
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / PsychologicalFiction / Dystopian
ISBN11018701339781101870136
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vNgVBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***

From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.

A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an “examiner,” the man, her “claimant.” The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings the claimant to a party, where he meets Hilda, a charismatic but volatile woman whose surprising assertions throw everything the claimant has learned into question. What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.