THE END WE START FROM
Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B89860
English Summary/英文概要： With film rights sold to Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, SunnyMarch, The End We Start From is a powerful vision of the future that is utterly unforgettable.
’I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once’ Tracy Chevalier
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z’s small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.
This is a story of new motherhood in a terrifying setting: a familiar world made dangerous and unstable, its people forced to become refugees. Startlingly beautiful, Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From is a gripping novel that paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. And yet, though the country is falling apart around them, this family’s world – of new life and new hope – sings with love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 入围巴诺书店新秀奖(Barnes & Noble Discover Prize)编辑选择小说奖得主
入围美国阿斯彭文学奖(Aspen Words Literary Prize)
美国书商协会创办的，2017年11月份排名第一独立制作小电影，2017年夏季/秋季独立电影推荐选择奖
2017年秋季 巴诺书店(Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection) 新秀作家选择奖
亚马逊本月最佳文学和小说
“《末日重始》是一部充满了怪诞而又具震撼性的，非常契合于当下不确定时代阅读的小说。我很感动，害怕，兴奋，有时这三种感觉会一起涌现。这需要作家的精湛技艺，而本书的作者亨特对如何使每个词都有意义，都有着独具诗人般的理解。”崔西·雪佛兰（美国作家名）著有《带珍珠耳环的少女》
2016年伦敦国际书展不到几天内，世界各地的出版商就纷纷抢占先机，“末日重始”的发布，预示着英国文坛一颗耀眼而独有才华的新星梅根·亨特的登场。亨特的这部首作是一部扣人心弦的原作，这是一个关于重生和重生的现代寓言，关于母性纽带的寓言，已经人类在完全陌生的环境下生存和茁壮成长的本能。
但伦敦被洪水淹没后，一位妇女诞下了她的第一个孩子Z。几天后，她和孩子为了寻找一片安身之地而被迫离家。她们向北穿过一个新的危险的国家，到处寻找避难所。这个故事随着孩子的渐渐成长，追溯了恐惧和奇迹，以及孩子在逆境中倔强成长和满足。
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《末日重始》是一本关于自然力量的令人印象深刻的科幻小说，这是对新母亲身份的一种充满了奇异和美丽的诗情画意的展现，已经人类女性在无法控制的环境变化面前所体现的坚韧。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“An exceptional, alarming and beautiful book, which still echoes months after I finished reading it. Megan Hunter is a writer of unnerving power.” (Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing)
“The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet’s understanding of how to make each word count.” (Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring)
“The End We Start From is a beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it.” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven)
“I can’t remember ever having read a novel quite as sparing or as daring as Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From, or one that delivers so mighty an impact from such delicate materials. It is a moving, wistful and compelling debut.” (Jim Crace, author of Harvest)
“The End We Start From is so good and clever: a beautiful, timely book about survival (both domestic and global) shot through with hope and humanity” (Lisa Owens, author of Not Working)
“Extraordinary. Megan Hunter’s prose is exquisite, her depiction of a world descending into chaos is frighteningly real, and yet, it is her portrayal of motherhood - that tender-terrifying experience of bringing a child into a world - that has remained with me. The End We Start From is an incredible, original exploration of all that beauty, boredom and bewilderment. I read it in one sitting, and was deeply moved.” (Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People)
“The End We Start From is relentlessly, achingly personal. Hunter reminds us that disasters are rarely experienced in panorama. Instead, we live bone-deep inside our narrator. This book is fierce, sorrowful, and spiked with moments of bright joy.” (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You)
“I held my breath reading this beautiful and timely novel. With precise yet lyrical language Megan Hunter gets to the centre of who we are, where we are, and why it matters. The End We Start From is a work of art.” (Christie Watson, author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away)
“Beautiful . . . Water isn’t the thing here, love is. And how we survive as the level of love rises.” (Cynan Jones, author of The Dig and Cove)
“Exceptional, stunning. I devoured it” (Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching)
“Spellbinding . . . a debut [that] packs a punch that belies its brevity, with the author’s background in poetry shining through . . . The End We Start From is a slender novel, but more profoundly moving than novels six times as long. It is perfectly balanced between fear and wonder. The world around them may be falling apart in the most extraordinary way, but ordinary life goes on and, as Hunter makes us understand, what a beautiful life it is.” The Bookseller
“A dystopia that feels utterly convincing as our narrator gives birth to her son in a London under threat of advancing flood waters. She lives in the gulp zone so must head off into a familiar territory that has become terrifying in search of shelter and safety. This slender take on new motherhood has stayed with me – not least in making me think about the UK as a place to flee from rather than to, and to imagine Londoners turned refugees.” Cathy Rentzenbrink, Stylist, one of her ’10 smashing debut novels’ of 2017 http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/ten-smashing-debut-novels-to-look-forward-to-in-2017-books-fiction-reading-yaa-gyasi-sarah-schmidt-emma-flint-sara-flannery-murphey-ali-land-megan-hunter-joseph-knox
About the Author/作者介绍： Megan Hunter’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and she was a finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award with her short story Selfing. This is her first book.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：THE END WE START FROM: UK: Picador; US: Grove; France: Gallimard; Germany: Beck; Holland: Holland Dieps
Foreign sales are as follows: France: Gallimard; Germany: C.H. Beck; Holland: Hollands Diep; Portugal: 20/20.
UK (Picador), US (Grove), France (Gallimard), Germany (Beck), Holland (Hollands Diep), Italy (Guanda), Portugal (20/20 Editora), Spain (Vegueta Ediciones), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
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