THE LAST WAY OUT: THE STORY OF A CONVERSATION
Book ID/图书代码： 07463010B40079
English Summary/英文概要： This second novel by Kalina Stefanova can be read both as a loose sequel to Ann’s Dwarves, her first work of fiction, or as a completely separate book. Either way, it’s a huge step forward as a literary achievement in terms of style, narrative and character development. Again being a fable at its core, this time the ideas, the main fabric of fables at large, are far from being the principal strength of the book itself. They come to life through the rich texture of human relations and the palpable atmosphere of the places where the action takes place.
On a sunny late afternoon in Frankfurt, during the Book Fair, the hardly unusual appearance of a chocolate-brown dog triggers a mysterious chain of events. They unfold against a background of other cities around the world, now and in days of yore, in the air and in our dreams, with the help of animals, people and thoughts (some of the latter turning out to be not our own, but ‘just visiting’ or even junk-thoughts), and end with the successful crossing of a metaphorical rope bridge, thin and unsafe, above a deep chasm. Meanwhile a succession of secrets are being revealed: about the existence of a Spiritual Bank, generators for and interceptors of thoughts, the vibrations of animals on the wavelength of Nature, the role of Anti-Nature, the last magic of human beings, and a lot more.
The narrative and the conversation in question (in the subtitle) meander through times and places in such a manner that everyone and everything we encounter along the way, including the secrets themselves, form something like a special set of matrioshka dolls. (Actually, embedded in there turns out to be the essence of Ann’s Dwarves as well, springing out of an old family chest, along with other parts of the current story.) The thing is that in this set not only the biggest doll, naturally, contains a smaller one, and so on; it gradually gets clear that the smallest doll too somehow contains the rest of the bigger ones, exactly as a drop of water reflects the whole ocean and even the universe.
On the surface, this unusual book could easily be taken as a fantasy based on reality. On a deeper level, though, it’s rather a lens through which our own reality turns out to have the wings of fantasy and it’s up to us to fly or not to fly. Imbued with a concern for the state of our souls as a basis for the current state of the world, The Last Way Out is not only a highly enjoyable read but a very topical one as well.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 卡里那的此部小说既可以看成是他首部小说的续集，也可以认为是一部完全独立的小说，无论是哪一种，就风格、叙述和角色发展而言，本书都取得了骄人的成功。 法兰克福书展期间，阳光明媚的夏日午后，一只棕色犬异乎寻常的外观引发了一系列神秘事件。故事缓缓展开，背景设置在世界上的很多其他城市，时间是现在或者往昔，事件发生在虚幻中或是我们的梦境里，动物们的帮助，人们脑袋里的想法，最后成功跨越了一座满含隐喻意味的索桥，摇摇欲坠十分危险，下面是万丈深渊。紧接着，一连串的秘密被揭晓：精神银行的存在（Spiritual Bank）、意念生成器和拦截机、反自然的角色、人类最后的魔法等等。
从表面上看，本书很容易被认为是介于现实基础之上的幻想，但往深处挖掘，你会发现，本书更像是一架透镜，通过它我们的现实便拥有了幻想的翅膀，飞或不飞，完全由我们自己决定。这本满含阅读趣味的书籍，不仅是对我们思想灵魂的关注，同样也是一部关注时下社会现状的作品。(兼职翻译-FSF)
Awards/获奖情况：《最后的出路》是一次积极能量的大爆炸。三代人--女儿、母亲和外祖母--去寻找人类存在的秘密。无惧得直面破坏势力，坚定无疑的善、爱以及自然的信念。书写优美、神秘而且充满诗意，这部作品为我们一直以来的疑惑找到了答案。 --格奥尔基（Georgi Tsankov）文学评论家 Muhcho 和安的对话，是叙述中的重点，像是精神的感召引领着我们，绝对得相信善良，直到我们都在心底渴望的那么亮光的出现。-Tsvetan Tsvetanov 中央人民广播电台
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