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Unsheltered

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內容簡介 出版人周刊最期待小說為什麼努力工作的兩人，最後卻落得貧困的下場？薇拉和丈夫一直盡忠職守地工作、負起社會責任、養育子女孝順父母，但薇拉工作的雜誌社倒閉了，丈夫原本已獲得終身職位的學校也倒閉，兩人除了一身債，還有一間繼承來的、已經快要瓦解的磚造房子，還要照顧行動不便的丈人，還有以自己需求為中心的女人，家中唯一看似生活比較順遂的兒子，畢業自常春藤名校，但卻捲入一場糾紛中……為什麼說出實話的人，反而會被責罵呢？柴契爾是一個以誠實研究為己任的科學老師，但他的僱主卻禁止他談及達爾文最新發表的一篇精彩文章，柴契爾的年輕妻子和趨炎附勢岳母卻因為擔心謠言會帶來的影響，所以謊稱他們雅致的房子其實不穩固的說法是假的。在這個小村莊裡，柴契爾只是希望可以誠實正當地盡到自己的責任，反被有權人士視為眼中釘……《毒木聖經》作者芭芭拉．金索沃的最新作品，敘述兩個不同時代的兩家人，身處因為過去無法作為未來根基而導致的危險時代中，所展現出的彈性。 The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it’s so unnerving that she’s arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is also home to her ailing and cantankerous Greek father-in-law and her two grown children: her stubborn, free-spirited daughter, Tig, and her dutiful debt-ridden, ivy educated son, Zeke, who has arrived with his unplanned baby in the wake of a life-shattering development.In an act of desperation, Willa begins to investigate the history of her home, hoping that the local historical preservation society might take an interest and provide funding for its direly needed repairs. Through her research into Vineland’s past and its creation as a Utopian community, she discovers a kindred spirit from the 1880s, Thatcher Greenwood.A science teacher with a lifelong passion for honest investigation, Thatcher finds himself under siege in his community for telling the truth: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting new theory recently published by Charles Darwin. Thatcher’s friendships with a brilliant woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor draw him into a vendetta with the town’s most powerful men. At home, his new wife and status-conscious mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his financial worries and the news that their elegant house is structurally unsound.Brilliantly executed and compulsively readable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred—whether family or friends—and in the strength of the human spirit.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership. In 2010 she won the Orange Prize for The Lacuna and her 2012 novel Flight Behaviour was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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