纵情夏日 – Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

这些天清晨，卢萨总能梦见一个有着丝绸般淡绿色翅翼的陌生人。他总是对她说同一句话：“我了解你。”

“你如此了解我，总是能找到我。”她说。

他的气味如同流瀑般的光线，涌入她的脑海。他将她裹入自己柔软的怀中，用摇曳的树枝和野花的香气轻抚她的脸庞，将她的需要拥入他的怀抱。

他们曾以为自己在这世上还有大把的时间可以耗费。四季更迭无穷无尽。

直到他们决定用一场盛宴来标记这个夏日。只靠嗅觉和气味辨别彼此，在暗夜里与死亡赛跑，如飞蛾般不顾一切。仿佛这就是最后一个夏天。

也许，他们拥有的就只这一个夏天了。

三位经历各异的女性

三个独立勇敢的灵魂

三段互相交织的奇遇

沉寂已久的心，终将再次猛烈跳动。

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.

From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer’s wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.

Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver’s finest work.

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