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【柳原漢雅筆下的惡魔 : 祕境的倫理試煉】
出身夏威夷的日裔作家柳原漢雅以這部處女作展現驚人的敘事野心，故事透過一名醫師的回憶錄，引領讀者深入太平洋一座神秘島嶼，探索一個與世隔絕的原始部族。科學、文明、倫理與人性在這片未知之地交會衝突，撼動了讀者對「發現」與「進步」的既定想像。本書結合冒險小說的節奏與道德寓言的深度，是一場關於野心、界線與代價的沉思之旅。
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers", who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States. He scientifically proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his own demons take hold, with devastating personal consequences.
ISBN: 9781035038527
頁數: 369頁
尺寸: 13.1 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm
Born in Los Angeles, Hanya Yanagihara spent her childhood between Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California and Texas. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, she settled in New York and worked in publishing before becoming a journalist and the editor for Condé Nast Traveler and subsequently the New York Times style supplement, T magazine.
Her debut novel The People in the Trees, published in 2013 to wide critical acclaim, draws from the true story of Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who was later convicted of child abuse. Yanagihara’s second novel rocketed her into the literary scene: an enduring bestseller and a modern classic, A Little Life (2015) won the 2015 Kirkus Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her third novel, To Paradise (2022), spans three centuries and explores three alternate versions of America and the American experiment.
