ENIGMA
Book ID/图书代码： 11516014B68776
English Summary/英文概要： Joshua Chambers is facing a catharsis when he learns that 14 of his friends have perished in a tragic blaze. In an attempt to make sense of his life, Joshua returns to his earliest memory, sitting in a stroller in his dad’s orthopedic shoe store being adored by a customer who teaches him about trust and love. Joshua then traces the forty significant events that created the person he is today. Joshua travels from the purity of his grade school love, Cathy, to a more mature relationship later in his life with Chris. Their discussions challenge conventional beliefs and Josh discovers that there is an authentic power in allowing one’s body, mind and spirit to find its own balance.
From his fraternity days to an African Baptism with incredible interpretations of “God,” his talks with Valentino, who is dying from AIDS, and his brief stint in jail, Joshua constantly grows and evolves, leading to an inevitable triumph of the human spirit when Joshua dances in heaven as a conscious vibration.
Enigma portrays philosophy, spirituality and sexuality as they actually exist in the present day.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当14名朋友一起在一场悲剧性的火灾中丧生，约书亚也继续精神上的疏导与发泄。为了弄清生命的意义，约书亚回到了自己幼年生活的地方，再一次闲逛之余，他坐在父亲的矫形鞋店里，感受着一名教会他信任与爱的客人的喜爱。约书亚追忆起了14件生命中帮助他成就了今天的自己的重大事件。
从与学校里的凯西一起经历的纯洁的爱，到随后与生命中的克丽丝一起经营的成熟的男女关系，约书亚对她们一一探访。他们的讨论挑战着一直以来的传统信念，并且约书亚发现，如果让身体、心灵和精神找到各自的平衡，那么个体便会获得真正的力量。
从身为人父到非洲式洗礼，他对“上帝”的认识有了全新的突破，他与即将死于艾滋病的华伦天奴的对话，以及他停滞不前的禁锢思想，约书亚在这一过程中不断的成长与进化，终取得人类精神上得巨大成就并在天堂世界里有意识地震动起舞。
《谜团》刻画出了现实生活中实际存在的种种哲学、精神以及性。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 查尔斯•斯托，1956年生于长岛法明代尔市。高中时获得NCTE国家写作奖，并前往雪城大学就读。他的第一部作品Hanging in the Balance于1990年出版。1996年，他搬至奥蒙德海滩并居住至今。2003年退休前，查尔斯一直在零售业工作，随后开始进行全职写作。过去两年里，他一直担任奥蒙德作家协会主席一职。
Charles Stoll was born in Farmingdale, Long Island in 1956. He received the N.C.T.E National Award in Writing in high school and attended Syracuse University. His first book, Hanging in the Balance, was published in 1990. He moved to Ormond Beach, FL in 1996, where he currently resides. Charles worked in retail management until he retired in 2003 to write full time. He has served as president for the Ormond Writer’s League for the past two years.
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