Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

 
        波諾，藝術家、社會運動家，同時為世界知名樂團U2主唱，開誠布公地寫下關於自己的回憶錄，紀錄他這一路精彩不凡的人生，紀錄那些他面對的挑戰，以及紀錄那些人生路上的美好相遇。
 
        「當我開始著手寫這本書，我希望的是能夠更詳細地去描述那些我曾經寫進歌裡的人事物，那些我人生曾有的可能性。挑選『Surrender』一詞為書名，對我而言非常有意義，當初在整理本書內容時，這是唯一盤旋在我腦海裡的詞彙。至今我仍奉其為旨，無論在樂團裡、婚姻裡、信仰裡，甚至我作為社會運動家的生活裡。這是關於一個朝聖者遲遲無進展的故事⋯⋯以及一路上好玩的事。」
 
        身為世界樂壇中指標性的人物，同時是公益組織ONE的共同創辦人，波諾的職業生涯已被報導、書寫過無數次，然而此次是由波諾親手執筆，以他本人角度重新寫下其不同凡響的人生故事。且看這個來自都柏林的男孩，如何面對14歲時突如其來的喪母之痛，一路走到成軍U2並帶領成員們成為世界最具影響力樂團之一，以及近20年，他又投入了多少心力在消除世界上的貧窮與愛滋病現象等社會運動。以坦率並幽默的文筆，自我揭露，向眾人展現關於波諾的世界。(文/博客來編譯)

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. - A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

＂A brilliant, very funny, very revealing autobiography-through-music. Maybe the best book ever written about being a rockstar.＂ --Caitlin Moran, award-winning journalist

＂When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way.＂ --Bono

As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was fourteen, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candor, self-reflection, and humor, Bono opens the aperture on his life--and the family, friends, and faith that have sustained, challenged, and shaped him.

Surrender’s subtitle, 40 Songs, One Story, is a nod to the book’s forty chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created forty original drawings for Surrender, which appear throughout the book.

Knopf is an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.