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荒原之書

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女孩的雙眼漆黑如墨,因為被紋滿了層層疊疊的故事,有王子、被王子誤殺的化鵝少女、萬物的源頭大母馬、落入人間的星辰,還有化為人形的白熊。女孩被拋棄在皇宮的花園裡,所有人都因為女孩雙眼隱含的魔法,不敢輕易靠近。

直到有天皇宮裡來了個男孩,或許是想證明自己很勇敢,他來到女孩面前,發覺並不會因為和女孩說說話就遭致厄運。太久沒有接觸到人類溫暖的女孩告訴男孩,紋在她眼眶的故事是精靈留下來的咒語,要等到這些故事全部被說完的那天,精靈才會回來審判女孩。

於是上了故事癮的好奇男孩,和渴望陪伴的女孩就藏匿於花園深處,女孩訴說一個個奇詭的故事,故事裡的角色又訴說他們自己的故事,看似不相關的一個個故事,彼此纏繞,層層開展。

262 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2006

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Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan.

She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.

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作者瓦倫特優美雅致的文筆、層層套疊的結構是《黑眼圈》系列的可看之處。小說仿效童話氛圍,使字裡行間兒童不宜的謀殺暗算、陰險詭詐更顯觸目驚心。《黑眼圈》系列採用《一千零一夜》口述歷史般的故事結構,敘事較為瑣碎龐雜,當要串成首尾相連的連續戲碼時,容易讀到後面就不小心忘了前面的細節。《荒原之書》僅是《黑眼圈》首部曲的第一個故事,部份懸而未決的伏筆仍留待《海之書》中發展延續。
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