ICE SONG
Book ID/图书代码： 01240008B24345
English Summary/英文概要： There are secrets beneath her skin. Sorykah Minuit is a scholar, an engineer, and the sole woman aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the Sigue. What no one knows is that she is also a Trader: one who can switch genders suddenly, a rare corporeal deviance universally met with fascination and superstition and all too often punished by harassment or death.
Sorykah’s infant twins, Leander and Ayeda, have inherited their mother’s Trader genes. When a wealthy, reclusive madman known as the Collector abducts the babies to use in his dreadful experiments, Sorykah and her male alter-ego, Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get them back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt from a deep and dreamless sleep.
The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins. Alluring, intense, and gorgeously rendered, Ice Song is a remarkable debut by a fiercely original new writer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 她的皮膚下隱藏著驚人的秘密。
Sorykah Minuit是一位學者，一名工程師，她還是寒冷徹骨的Sigue國裡唯一生活在冰下潛水艇裡面的女人。但是人們不知道的是她一個雙性變異人種—Trader。該人種可以在瞬間轉換性別。他們非常的罕見，普遍存在人類的幻想和迷信概念中，往往受到殘酷折磨或處以死刑的懲罰。
Sorykah的雙胞胎嬰兒Leander 和Ayeda同樣繼承了母親的基因。一個身家富裕，避世隱居的精神病患者—也就是人們所熟知的收藏家—綁架了這對嬰兒，並打算用他們進行恐怖的實驗。Sorykah和她的男性身份Soryk必須穿過冰冷的垃圾堆和一座原始森林將他們救回。Sorykah 和Soryk不能分享記憶的這件事讓他們的旅途更加危險：每一次沒有意識的性別轉換就像是被人從安穩的睡夢中劇烈地叫醒。
Sorykah和Soryk轉換身份的旅程對於我們來說既熟悉又超乎想像。環境惡化與基因突變開始胡作非為；人類變成扭曲的動物，而動物的身體裡隱藏著野蠻的人性。但是這個世界也充滿意想不到的美麗和奇跡，在這裡善良和關愛從廢墟中掙扎求生。故事魅力巨大，情節緊湊，語言華麗，這是絕對是一本非凡卓越的處女作品。（from XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：“一本令人驚奇的奇幻處女作品，講述了愛與血緣的故事。”<,br>
"A stunning debut fantasy about love and the ties of blood."—Armchair Interviews
“格西的首部作品講述了一個大膽的探險之旅，詳盡地描述了一個豐富的世界。Traders能夠變性這一特點讓我想起了Ursula K. LeGuin的作品《黑暗的左手》，而小島上的各種活動則讓我想起了K. Hamilton的小說。”
"Kasai’s debut is a boldly adventurous tale depicting a richly detailed world. The aspect of Traders shifting gender brings Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness to mind, while the activities on Chen’s island are more reminiscent of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Meredith Gentry novels."—Booklist
"When Sorykah’s twin babies are stolen, she leaves her job as engineer aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the Sigue to search for her children, for they, like her, are members of the gender-shifting Traders, a rare subspecies of humans that can shift from male to female and back again. Kasai’s first novel creates a frozen world inhabited by permutations of humans and animals, from the eight-limbed octameroons to dog-faced humans and wolves who can become men. Despite the bleak images of a world too often tampered with, Sorykah and her alter ego, the male Soryk, demonstrate the strength and persistence of love and loyalty. Reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s paradigm-shattering The Left Hand of Darkness, this piercingly moving story belongs in most fantasy collections."—Library Journal
About the Author/作者介绍： 克裡斯丁.伊曼妮.格西，祖籍科羅拉多，但是她的足跡卻遍佈英美，包括新澤西州的紐馬克市，紐約東漢普頓區，英國的布拉德福特和彭贊斯。而且，她曾在三藩市某公寓樓梯間一個沒有窗子的房間裡，和10位室友，4只蜥蜴，3只貓，2個德國交換生，以及一個禿頂的愛爾蘭非法移民父女擠在一起。 在她生孩子之前，她幾乎每隔六個月就換一座城市，以滿足她對新鮮感的渴望。作者目前與家人定居在南加利福利亞。Kirsten Imani Kasai, a native Coloradoan, has lived in places as diverse as Newark, New Jersey; East Hampton, New York; Bradford and Penzance, England (sadly devoid of singing pirates); and a windowless cubby beneath the stairs in a San Francisco flat crowded with ten roommates, four iguanas, three cats, two German exchange students, and a bald illegal Irishwoman, none of whom possessed a front door key. Before having children, she moved to a new city every six months, indulging her taste for novelty. She currently resides in southern California with her husband and two children.
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