The Keep
The Keep
副标题: Keep
ISBN: 9781400079742
出版社: Anchor
出版年: 2007-7-10
页数: 272
定价: USD 15.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
作者简介
珍妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）
出生于美国芝加哥，在旧金山长大，先后就读于宾夕法尼亚大学和剑桥大学圣约翰学院。她出版了三部长篇作品：《看不见的马戏团》、《望着我》（美国国家图书奖决选作品），以及畅销之作《塔楼》。同时，她也出版了短篇小说集《翡翠城》。她在《纽约客》、《哈泼斯》、《麦克斯韦尼斯》（McSweeney's）以及《犁铧》（Ploughshares）上发表短篇小说，也为《纽约时报杂志》撰写新闻稿。