We, The Survivors

　　《和諧絲莊》(the Harmony Silk factory)、《沒有地圖的世界》（Map of the invisiable World）與《五星豪門》(Five Star Billionaire)的作者歐大旭(Tash Aw)又一新作，精準描述男性的暴力與亞洲社會快速變遷下的背景。

　　故事發生在馬來西亞的小漁村，主角安霍克(Ah Hock)，是位平凡的漁夫，從小在漁村長大，他喜歡平靜生活中的安定感。但周遭快速地變化，在這個聲稱人人可以過上富有生活的社會中，他掙扎求生，追尋實際上極微小的機會，卻始終被困在社會的最底層。甚至，生活迫使他犯下謀殺案。

　　是什麼原因讓他殺了人？

　　這一切的質問來自一名中產的記者。

　　當受害者已經安息、加害者入監服刑，安霍克的動機，卻始終不明，甚至對安霍克自己而言，也說不清。從他生動的自白、緊鑼密鼓的訪談、記者的不斷追問，整個過程，迫使雙方面對制度的力量與種族、階級的差異，或本該受惠的普羅大眾，卻被排除在少數幸運的繼承人之外的現實。

　　不肯妥協的圈外人，徘徊在社會過渡的灰色地帶，你我都是倖存者，小心翼翼地活著，等待指日可待的滅亡。

　　歐大旭出生於台北，但成長於馬來西亞。他憑著《和諧絲莊》獲得英國惠特布列（Whitebread）小說首獎。《沒有地圖的世界》與《五星豪門》，曾於2013年提名曼布克獎。多元的生長環境與求學歷程，反映在他的文字中，塑造出亞洲世界的光怪陸離，帶來精彩而深沉的作品。

　　A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.

　　Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep his head above water but ultimately lead him to murder a migrant worker from Bangladesh.

　　In the tradition of Camus and Houellebecq, Ah Hock’s vivid and compelling description of the years building up to this appalling act of violence – told over several days to a local journalist whose life has taken a different course – is a portrait of an outsider like no other, an anti-nostalgic view of human life and the ravages of hope. It is the work of a writer at the peak of his powers.

　　Review

　　Advance Praise for We, the Survivors

　　“Tash Aw’s new novel succeeds in achieving many feats: it is at once the great novel on today’s racism that we have been waiting for; a masterly fresco of Southeast Asia, a region of the world that remains underrepresented in literature; and a magnificent story . . . We, The Survivors is one of the most beautiful and powerful books I’ve read in years.” ―Édouard Louis

　　“Utterly absorbing to the last word . . . With deep empathy combined with a sharp, unflinching gaze. As with his other books, we end up loving the characters we might otherwise hate, and arguing with those we might have a natural affinity for. [Aw] manages to turn our assumptions inside out, all while creating a world that would, without him, remain out of reach and invisible.”―Tahmima Anam
 

作者簡介

　　Tash Aw was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. He is the author of three novels, The Harmony Silk Factory, which was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize; Map of the Invisible World; and Five Star Billionaire, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. He is also the author of a memoir of an immigrant family, The Face: Strangers on a Pier, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.