內容簡介
內容簡介 「今夏討論最熱烈的出道作，The Incendiaries出現的正是時候。」─華盛頓郵報菲比來自韓裔家庭，是個聰明有才華、正在閃閃發光的女孩，受到母親的影響在鋼琴演奏下有很不錯的表現，但在她看似光鮮、前途似景的外表下，其實卻因母親過世而自責，接著她做出放棄鋼琴的決定，更是讓內心壓力更沉重。威爾則是個窮小子，雖然靠著獎學金進了一流的大學，但卻需要打工當服務生來賺取生活費，面對多是來自富裕家庭的同學，他只能對自己的經濟狀況絕口不提。菲比和威爾兩人在大學裡相遇，生活窮困的威爾什麼都沒有，唯一擁有的就是對菲比的愛。而菲比因為內心的壓力，受到一個邪教的吸引，當然威爾也難以不受影響，但是當邪教開始做出脫軌的事情時，威爾動搖了，他面對著另一個自己努力想要掙脫的環境……作者R. O. Kwon來自韓裔家庭，本書為她的出道作，講述初戀也可以非常陰暗、危險，因為精彩的敘事方式和用字，一出版就受到讀者、媒體、文壇一致好評，也為這個夏天的小說市場增添了風采。“In dazzlingly acrobatic prose, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism, passion and violence, the rational and the unknowable.” –Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires EverywhereA shocking novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Time, Parade, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, PBS, Vulture, Buzzfeed, BookRiot, PopSugar, Refinery29, Bustle, The Rumpus, Paste, BBCPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act.The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
