某年冬季假期，13岁少女丽贝卡•肖随父母来到英格兰中部山区度假却意外失踪。村民、警察、搜救队、潜水员找了几天几夜都一无所获。事件被电视新闻报道了一次又一次，但每次的内容都差不多。此后的13年间，四季更替，日常往复，人们想象着有关丽贝卡下落的种种可能，她的失踪似乎成了一 道阴影，深深嵌入日常生活的肌理。
搜寻并未停止，但村子里的生活也还得继续，爱恨离愁、生老病死也还得继续。有人离开了村子，也有人重新归来；有人走到了一起，也有人决定分离。13年里，有婴儿新生，有老人过世，有的秘密被众人知晓，有的秘密永远没有答案，有人走投无路，也有人开始另谋生计，有微小的善良，也有意料之外的背叛。蝙蝠依旧挂在教堂屋檐下，苍鹭在河岸边踱步，山楂树上乌鸫成群，獾和狐狸在树林深处觅食、繁衍、争斗……
《水库13》是一部不断累积起平凡生活之力的小说，它用13年的时间探索自然世界的节奏和人与人之间的美妙情感，这一切都在一场陌生人所遇悲剧的余震中展开。
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. 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 tragedy refuse to subside.
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