COSTA Novel Award 2013 Winner

KATE

ATKINSON

LIFE after LIFE

2013 科斯塔 Costa Novel Award 大獎得主

英國 BBC 影集《塵封舊案》Case Histories 作者

如果你的人生能不斷重來，直到滿意為止？

一九一零年，一個凜冽刺骨的雪夜，娥蘇拉．陶德誕生在一個英國銀行鉅子的家中，然而還來不及呼吸人世間的第一口氣便已夭折。但也在同一個夜晚，娥蘇拉．陶德又再次誕生人世間，這回她爆出了嬰兒響亮的哭聲，開始了一個，至少可以說是，極為特殊的人生。因為隨著娥蘇拉逐漸成長，她也以各種方式不斷地死去；同時嶄新的廿世紀則是向著災難性的第二次世界大戰緩步前進。

娥蘇拉看似能無限重來的人生抉擇，是否因此賦予她解救世界免於必然命運的能力？倘若她能，又是否願意這麼做？

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.

What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

■凱特．亞金森／Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named the UK's Whitbread Book of the Year in 1995. Since then, she has written seven more ground-breaking, bestselling books, most recently Started Early, Took My Dog. She lives in Edinburgh.

作者：凱特．亞金森／Kate Atkinson

版本：UK First Edition

規格：小平裝／Mass Market Paperback，11.2 x 17.9 x 4 cm，624頁

出版商：Transworld Publishers Ltd

商標：Black Swan

出版日期：2014年01月30日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-552-77968-5

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