THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT
Book ID/图书代码： 12844004B00892
English Summary/英文概要： Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can’t find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he’s fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that’s belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger, Anniston Bennet, offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no.
The relationship between the two men quickly becomes one of power. The black man is to hold the white man prisoner, thus allowing the latter to atone for ’crimes against humanity’. But the prisoner is cunning and able to suggest that the jailor is not an innocent party uninvolved in the networks of exchange and commerce that rule the outside world. When Bennet asks, "You think that you can have the easy life of TV and gasoline without someone suffering and dying somewhere?" we are at the very heart of the matter. The Man in My Basement is a provocative investigation into the links between race and power. At a time when so much contemporary fiction is weighed down by too many facts and too much information, Walter Mosley, in the tradition of Camus and Nabokov, writes on the human condition.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来自美国著名推理作家的一部被誉为当世‘杰作’，讲述了一个年轻的黑人男子如何同意一个不寻常的交易，来拯救他所挚爱的世代家族的神秘故事。
查尔斯•布莱基（Charles Blakey）的门前的这个男人提出了一个非常奇怪的主张。这个陌生人给他5万美元的现金，让他在查尔斯的地下室度过整个夏天，查尔斯甚至都不知道为什么。这幢漂亮的房子已经在布莱基家族中流传好几代了，但查尔斯刚失去了工作，他的抵押贷款还未偿清。这笔钱来得正是时候。但查尔斯•布莱基是黑人，安尼斯顿•班纳特(Anniston Bennet)是白人，很明显，这个陌生人想要的不仅仅是地下室的风景。
这个人提出的要求越来越黑暗和深奥，而查尔斯不想惹任何麻烦。但财务上的吃紧，让他别无选择。一旦安尼斯顿•班纳特被安置在他的地下室里，查尔斯被塑造成一个他从未想过的角色。安尼斯顿对他的房东提出了一些特别的要求，尽管如此，查尔斯还是不能避免被引诱到班纳奇特的世界里去。一开始，他拒绝了，但很快他就被诱惑了，想要理解一套他一直逃避的准则，他被这个有机会可以了解白人的秘密方式所迷惑着。
查尔斯与一个白人在地下室一起的夏天，变成了对不可想象的权力和操纵世界的探索，以及不可想象的人类领域。Walter Mosley的长期隐藏的正义和道德的脉络，令人震惊地洞察了人性最深奥的秘密。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins crime series, the novels Blue Light and RL’s Dream, Fearless Jones and Fear Itself. In addition, he has written two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and Walkin’ the Dog - and one work of non-fiction, What Next.
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