A HIGHLY UNLIKELY SCENARIO, OR A NEETSA PIZZA EMPLOYEE’S GUIDE TO SAVING THE WORLD: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 08885014B69482
English Summary/英文概要： In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It’s a boring job, but he likes it—there’s a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house. Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn’t like it when you go off script.
Meanwhile, Leonard’s sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her “book club,” leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts.
A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you can’t save the world with pizza coupons.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在不远的将来，竞争的巨型快餐集团将统治世界。Leonard在妮莎披萨店工作，属于毕达哥拉斯披萨产业链，在孤独而高度监控的家庭办公室里，接听投诉热线。工作枯燥，但他喜欢这份工作，因为有固定的适用于每个情节的答案，而且他不用离开房间。除了有次，他接到Marco的电话，声称是位刚从Cathay回来的13世纪探险家，那你会怎么回应呢？而且，妮莎披萨店不喜欢脱离情节和台本的人。
与此同时，Leonard的姐姐因她的“书籍俱乐部”的神秘任务而一直处于失踪状态，留下他来照顾他的侄子，这意味着他得出门。而外面，证书麻烦开始的地方。
这本让人眼花缭乱的新书，让中世纪的犹太玄学家、稀有书籍的图书管理员和近代的信仰培根哲学的人争论秘密知识的控制权，一位妮莎披萨店员工发现，人们不能靠披萨优惠券就能拯救世界。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“反面乌托邦般的讽刺故事----讲故事、信仰和倾听---极无可能的情节是我们所处的奇怪世界的终极故事。”----纽约时报书评
“一本非常精明、双关的，以及很浪漫的喜剧。带有标志和奇特，以及讽刺的手法，Cantor的有趣而迷人的超自然的冒险精神和爱情故事是对感知、知识、神话、遗产和爱情等问题的探究。”----书目
“Cantor的小说对Douglas Adam的《Hitchhiker对宇宙的向导》的粉丝来说是个巨大的打击。本书发生了很多事情，所有的事情都很有趣。”----图书馆杂志
“A dystopian satire, a story about -storytelling, believing and listening—A Highly Unlikely Scenario is ultimately a history of our own strange world.”
—The New York Times Book Review
"[A] rambunctiously smart, pun-spiked, and sweet dystopian romantic comedy... Glimmering with ’signs and wonders’ and laced with satirical jabs at technological intrusiveness and deception, Cantor’s funny and charming metaphysical adventure and love story is a wily inquiry into questions of perception, knowledge, mystery, legacy, and love."
—Booklist
"Cantor’s novel will be a great hit for fans of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. There’s a lot going on here, and all of it is amusing."
—Library Journal
About the Author/作者介绍： Rachel Cantor出生在康州的哈特福特市，成长在意大利。在获得国际发展和写小说的学位前，她为法国的爵士节以及澳大利亚的食品节工作。她写的短篇小说出版在《巴黎书评》、《一个故事》、《Kenyon书评》、《Fence》及其他许多的出版物上。她在美国的七个州住过，在6个大陆的15个国家工作过。目前住在布鲁克林，一直在为另一本书工作。
RACHEL CANTOR was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Italy. She worked for jazz festivals in France and food festivals in Australia before getting degrees in international development and fiction writing. Her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, Fence, and numerous other publications. She has lived in seven U.S. states and worked in fifteen countries on six continents. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she is always at work on another book.
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