THE ARCHIVE OF ALTERNATE ENDINGS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 02330019C00011
English Summary/英文概要： Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth’s visits by Halley’s Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold.
In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg’s sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he can’t come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth’s sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy.
Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire’s Here and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 離開了糖果屋中的韓塞爾與葛雷特，後來怎麼樣了？
1456年，約翰尼斯·古騰堡（Johannes Gutenberg）的姐姐以這個故事作為隱喻，分享了只有她哥哥相信的家庭秘密。1835年，雅各‧格林和威廉‧格林這對兄弟改寫了故事，以掩蓋一個關於雅各的真相，因為這個真相連雅各自己都無法面對。1986年，一位民俗學者和她兄弟發現了關於森林中巫婆形象的記錄是錯誤的，而在2211年，一對為了尋找地球姊妹星球的雙子太空探測船，以二元碼被傳播了這個故事。沿著掉落的麵包屑，從2365年追溯回1378年，韓塞爾與葛雷特的故事在不同的兄弟姊妹們間被重新演繹、改寫、輪迴，只是為了將個人的、區域性的、乃至於宇宙間的悲劇付諸語言、敘述出來。
這本小說以每75年的間隔，追蹤了韓塞爾與葛雷特故事的傳播和發展，與哈雷彗星訪問地球的時間相呼應，探討了故事是如何被人們傳播、分享、編輯、審查、敘述乃至於遺忘。介於生態小說和心理驚悚小說之間，探討了千年來手足之間的情誼以及對創傷經驗的面對，令人聯想到知名漫畫家理查德·麥奎爾（Richard McGuire）的《這裡》（Here）和拉斯·馮·提爾（Lars von Trier）的《驚悚末日》（Melancholia）。
(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况：★本書作者為賓厄姆頓大學John Gardner小說獎得主、Shirley Jackson獎得主並曾入圍浪達文學獎 (Lambda Literary Award)決選
★Kirkus Reviews、Arkansas International、Historical Novel Society、Philly.com、Barrelhouse、NPR、Brooklyn Rail、The Quietus、New York Journal of Books等媒體好評推薦
★美國國家圖書獎入圍作家，丹•錢恩(Dan Chaon) 推薦
★亞馬遜4.7顆星推薦
「令人著迷...Drager的故事充滿企圖心與情感感染力，一本聰明且迷人的小說。」──《出版人週刊》星級推薦
「我可以把這本書拿來和大衛．米契爾的《雲圖》或賴芙麗的《月虎》相比較，但事實上，我從未讀過像Lindsey Drager的《另類結局檔案》這樣的小說。 是的，這是一部非凡的，令人讚嘆的小說，但它也是令人愉快的原創故事集，當中這些故事橫跨越了好幾個世紀，最終形成一種對於愛和悲劇的敘述。請注意，當心，您手中的書充滿了魔力，而等待您的章節充滿了哥德式的陰影和童話的奇幻氣氛，就像德國的黑森林一樣。」
──美國得獎小說家 Benjamin Percy
「在這個不斷輪迴的故事中，既虛無卻也有著深遠的希望。虛無，因為它以多種方式表明，作為全人類故事、生活、愛以及恨的連續體的一部分，我們每個人都微不足道，但之所以充滿希望，是因為這一連續體意味著我們彼此的故事都相互關聯，我們的敘事相互聯繫，因此儘管我們可能微不足道，但我們也從不孤單。」
──全國公共廣播電台
"A philosophical book ... beautiful in its conception." ―Kirkus Reviews
"The Archive of Alternate Endings will lead you into uncanny forests both primordial and new, where storytellers forage and banished children roam. Cosmically expansive and poignantly intimate, Lindsey Drager’s queer retellings tap into the magic and menace of ancient tales―a dazzling, moving, brilliant book." --Julia Elliott, author of The Wilds and The New and Improved Romie Futch
"A system that includes labyrinths and dark forests as well as siblings, light, and houses made of ginger bread. ... What a pleasure it is to enter the safe harbor of Drager’s novel." --New York Journal of Books
"This beautiful, haunting and innovative novel traces the way stories live inside us and travel over generations. It’s a book that asks essential questions: What makes us human? What might our species leave behind when it’s gone? A stunning tour-de-force that will linger with me for a long time." --Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
"I could make comparisons―to David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger―but I’ve never read anything quite like Lindsey Drager’s The Archive of Alternate Endings. Yes, it’s a remarkable, heart-stunning novel, but it’s also a delightfully original collection of stories that reaches across the centuries to ultimately shape a narrative of love and tragedy. Behold and beware, there’s magic in your hands, and the chapters that await you are as thick with gothic shadows and fairy tale whimsy as the Black Forest of Germany." --Benjamin Percy, author of The Dark Net and Red Moon
"Lindsey Drager’s novel-in-stories, The Archive of Alternate Endings, spans the history (and future) of the western world, all while showing what is, in fact, the short timeline of humanity. Storytelling. Fables. Legends. Mythologies. Drager’s world is one that spins variations of itself across time. And yet through the stories in this collection we find that what does remain constant across this cyclical continuum is love, devotion, and commitment. Concise and beautifully written in an understated yet rich manner, Lindsey Drager not only has given us a book of ideas, but, equally important, she has given us a work of art."--Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963 and What the Women Do
About the Author/作者介绍： Lindsey Drager曾獲2016年賓厄姆頓大學John Gardner小說獎、2017年Shirley Jackson獎，並曾入圍浪達文學獎 (Lambda Literary Award)決選。她是查爾斯頓學院的助理教授。
她的作品包括：
The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015) －賓厄姆頓大學John Gardner小說獎得主
The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017)－2017年Shirley Jackson獎得主，浪達文學獎 (Lambda Literary Award)決選入圍
Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award. Originally from Michigan, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction. Her work has been published in prominent venues including Web Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Quarterly West, and Kenyon Review Online.
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