恶魔之地 – Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

小说的故事发生在1950年代的美国，我们的主人公艾提克斯是一名年轻的退伍军人。与很多当时的青年一样，他也喜欢读科幻小说，喜欢《诡丽幻谭》杂志，喜欢H.P.洛夫克拉夫特，喜欢克苏鲁神话；而不同的是，他是个黑人。在种族隔离制度下，黑皮肤就是原罪，每日遭遇不公和歧视的家人很不理解他，不明白他作为一个黑人，为什么要读H.P.洛夫克拉夫特这种白人至上主义者的狗屁玩意儿呢？为什么要对克苏鲁神话这种白垃圾的胡言乱语着迷呢？直到有一天，一位神秘的白人富豪突然出现，将艾提克斯一家引到“阿达姆”的一处古堡，一段让众人“狂掉SAN值”的旅程才正式开始……

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned Atticus’s great grandmother—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today. 

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