Reservoir 13

　　那一年的冬季假期，十三歲的Rebecca和父母來到Peak District的一個村莊度假，然而她外出散步之後，卻彷彿被這片土地吞噬，消失無蹤。

　　警方和村民一同展開搜索，救難隊和直升機也紛紛出動，記者們蜂擁而至，少女卻沒有回來。

　　儘管悲劇發生，居民們的日子還是要過。Rebecca的失蹤成為一道陰影，深深嵌入他們日常生活的肌理。村民重拾日復一日的活動，他們工作，操繁瑣事，他們相愛，然後分離，孩子誕生，孩子長大，人們老去，最後死亡。

　　十三年過去，那個女孩未曾被遺忘，人們夢見她回來，沿著公路，穿過荒野，走出其中一座水庫……。

　　Jon McGregor是文學界不容小覷的新星，目前出版的四部作品中，有三部作品曾入圍曼布克獎初選。這部令人驚豔的新作，以懸疑的氛圍開頭，但快速引領讀者看見全然不同的世界。全書共十三個篇章，一章代表了一年的時間，透過全知觀點的敘述方式，McGregor訴說了當地居民的生活，和失蹤事件帶來的影響，他展現精湛的敘事功力，以精巧、簡潔、安靜的文字，描述了流逝的時間，以及被時間深深劃下傷痕的人們。【文/博客來編譯】

　　A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
　　AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR
　　A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
　　AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
　　A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR

　　From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss.

　　Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home.

　　Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.

　　The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.

　　An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside.

　　LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
　　SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
　　SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE

　　‘A rare and dazzling feat of art’ George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

　　‘McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall, author of The Wolf Border

　　‘Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary – the way it’s structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon McGregor lets the characters breathe and age’ Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha