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THE STORY OF

EDGAR

SAWTELLE

A NOVEL

DAVID WROBLEWSKI

生來喑啞僅藉手語溝通的艾德嘉．索特爾，自幼著雙親住在威斯康辛北部偏僻的鄉間，過著恬靜的鄉村生活，全心培育知名的「索特爾犬」。然而有天不幸降臨這個家庭，艾德嘉被迫逃往鄰近的廣袤森林，陪伴在旁的只得三隻剛滿足歲的幼犬。在野外為了戮力求生，艾德嘉的心智被迫快速成長，同時還得面對是否就此孤離一世，抑或返家揭露那場悲劇背後的真相？作者羅布列斯基不僅寫就一則動人的家族傳奇，更是一個探索語言極限的傑出作品。甫出版便註定成為文壇當代經典。

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into the vast neighboring wilderness, accompanied by only three yearling pups. Struggling for survival, Edgar comes of age in the wild, and must face the choice of leaving forever or revealing the terrible truth behind what has happened. A riveting family saga as well as a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is destined to become a modern classic.

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Almondine

Eventually, she understood the house was keeping a secret from her.

All that winter and all through the spring Almondine had known something was going to happen, but no matter where she looked she couldn't find it. Sometimes, when she entered a room, there was the feeling that the thing that was going to happen had just been there, and she would stop and pant and peer around while the feeling seeped away as mysteriously as it had arrived. Weeks might pass without a sign, and then a night would come, when, lying nose to tail beneath the window in the kitchen corner, listening to the murmur of conversation and the slosh and clink of dishes being washed, she felt it in the house again and she whisked her tail in long, pensive strokes across the baseboards and silently collected her feet beneath her and waited. When half an hour passed and nothing appeared, she groaned and sighed and rolled onto her back and waited to see if it was somewhere in her sleep.

She began investigating unlikely crevices: behind the refrigerator, where age-old layers of dust whirled into frantic life under her breath; within the tangle of chair legs and living feet beneath the kitchen table; inside the boots and shoes sagging in a line beside the back porch door—none with any success, though freshly baited mousetraps began to appear behind the appliances, beyond the reach of her delicate, inquisitive nose...

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■大衛．羅布列斯基／David Wroblewski

David Wroblewski grew up in rural Wisconsin, not far from the Chequamegon National Forest where The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is set. He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and now lives in Colorado with his partner, the writer Kimberly McClintock, and their dog, Lola. This is his first novel.

作者：大衛．羅布列斯基／David Wroblewski

版本：International Edition

規格：小平裝／Mass Market Paperback，10.7 x 17.1 x 3.5 cm，624頁

出版商：HarperCollins Publishers Inc

商標：Harper Ficition

出版日期：2011年07月11日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-307-27666-7

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