LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND
Book ID/图书代码： 03277010B36152
English Summary/英文概要： Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions in which he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that’s to be decided.
Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, LIGHTS OUT IN WONDRLAND documents Gabriel Brockwell’s remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel’s adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin’s majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.
LIGHTS OUT IN WONDRLAND carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel’s voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre’s third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Gabriel Brockwell是一個唯美主義者、詩人、哲學家，不滿現今年輕人的墮落頹廢作風，積極的想找尋人生的生存意義，而他相信這答案會在現世的天堂仙境裡（Wonderland）。這趟虛無狂想的追尋之旅從倫敦、東京、柏林到加拉巴哥群島，從無數的派對中尋找酒神的所在，從美味的河豚中體驗瀕死的經驗，從一隻章魚上享受到極致的性愛…一場極具趣味及荒謬的人性體驗之旅。(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：布克奬得主 DBC Pierre最新奇想力作 Rights sold so far:
UK – Faber & Faber, USA – WW Norton and Co., Denmark – HR Ferdinand, The Netherlands – Podium, France – Payot & Rivages, Germany – Eichborn, Italy – Einaudi
It’s great to see Pierre back on form with another hefty slab of outrageous black comedy: a stupendously over-the-top romp based on the excesses of 21st-century capitalism and all its orgiastic horror … delivered in a narrative voice that is utterly compelling and always funny.---Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday
DBC Pierre’s first book, Vernon God Little, was brilliant. Lights Out is even better...Pierre proves that a book can be insightful and shocking as well as melancholic and wickedly funny. Only someone able to take the piss out of themselves and the world they live in so astutely could pull this off: irresistible---Time Out, Book of the Week
http://www.thethoughtfox.co.uk/?p=2879 : article written by Pierre’s editor at Faber, Lee Brackstone
About the Author/作者介绍： 生於澳洲，長於墨西哥，現居愛爾蘭。皮爾是朋友對他的暱稱，DBC則代表「dirty but clean」。曾經沈迷於毒品和賭博的墮落世界中，後來因著寫作，使他荒唐的生活出現了曙光，首部作品《維農少年》(Vernon God Little)推出後便囊括全球各大獎項：「伍德豪斯獎」(Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award), 「惠布瑞特首作小說獎(現為柯斯達奬)」(the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel)以及英國文壇最高榮譽的「布克文學獎」(2003 Man Booker Prize)。在2006年時出版第二本小說Ludmila’s Broken English，而Lights Out in Wonderland是最新的作品，他絕對是布克獎有史以來最具爭議的得獎作家。
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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