小說/散文

Ocean at the End of the Lane
出版社： Harper Collins Publishers
書林書號：
20237011
作者：
Gaiman, Neil
定價：
280
會員價：
$238
ISBN：
9780062459367
出版年份：
2016
裝訂：
平裝
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萊緹的遺忘之海

孩時的玩具常遭人遺忘，壓在成人塞滿東西的櫃子底下，童年的記憶有時也像這樣被後來的記憶埋藏掩蓋，但從來不會就此消失。

　　我幾乎不記得薩塞克斯郡的路，沿著蜿延的路開，最後發現自己正開往市中心，只好拐向另一條路，左轉，然後右轉。這時候，我才發現車子朝哪裡開去；原來我一直往那個方向開去。我發現自己做了蠢事，不禁皺眉。

　　我正開向一棟數十年前就不存在的房子。

　　中年男子返回故鄉參加葬禮，雖然他兒時住過的房子早已不在，他卻仍不由自主走向小路盡頭的農場。當他七歲時，曾在這裡遇到最了不起的女孩──萊緹‧漢絲托，還有萊緹的媽媽與外婆。他已經有幾十年的時間不曾想起萊緹，然而當他坐在小路盡頭的池塘邊，塵封的記憶突然席捲而來……萊緹說這不是池塘，而是海洋。

　　那段過去太過詭異、嚇人，如此危險，根本不該發生在任何人身上，遑論當時的他只是一個小男孩。而萊緹，看似年僅十一歲，卻無比睿智、勇敢的萊緹，則發誓會盡一切力量保護他。

　　這是一則哀傷的寓言，精緻、美麗如蝶翼，危險、邪惡如黑暗中的刀刃。「故事寶窟」尼爾‧蓋曼再次展露驚人天賦，寫下最深沉的恐懼，以及最美麗的勇氣。

UK National Book Awards 2013 "Book of the Year"

“Fantasy of the very best.” Wall Street Journal

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.
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