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《不復原鄉》
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 by Tommy Orange
美國筆會/海明威獎受賞作
美國國家書評人協會獎
入圍普立茲決選、卡內基優秀小說獎決選名單
十二段人生，在大奧克蘭豐年祭(Powwow)，以最震撼的方式相遇。
但，所有人的人生軌跡，在更早之前，就已悄悄交織。
繼承了藝術家舅舅的攝影機，Dene爭取到補助的計畫，以拍攝原住民紀錄片紀念他；
戒酒成功的單親母親Jacquie試圖修復與家人的關係，卻也在此時與舊情人重逢；
Orvil不明白外婆為何總對自己夏安原住民的歷史三緘其口，偷偷看YouTube影片自學傳統舞蹈；
用3D印表機印出槍枝的Daniel，和因母親酗酒造成的胎兒酒精症候群，外貌引人側目的Tony，準備潛入豐年祭，劫走大筆獎金…
美洲原住民，這個身分意味著什麼？
不是一個標籤，一種印象，一群人的特定樣子。我們對這個族群，已有太多太多的刻板印象與誤解，作者在這部迴響熱烈的出道作品中，既深且廣地挖出了筆下角色各自的風景，他們承載了族群歷史的榮光與驕傲，同時背負了時至今日的傷痛、誤解、未和解，以及尚未獲得的公義。
書中十二位角色，各自道出了都市原住民的身分認同與歷史創傷。Tommy Orange筆下的人物，立體而複雜，作者以毫不留情的筆觸力道與近乎殘酷的細膩，讓書中角色伴隨著各自的聲音，從不同方面映照出當代都會原住民的生活樣貌，以及各自在身分、社區關係、酒癮、貧困中掙扎生存的樣貌。
於是讀者的視角將一再切換，在每位角色間流轉，我們將看見族群歷史與個人間的暴力與修復，記憶與認同，及穿梭在印地安歷史中，交織的美和失落。
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down–full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
