The Book of Flights飢餓間奏曲

2008年「諾貝爾文學獎」得主
勒‧克萊喬得獎後第一部作品！
法國熱賣突破30萬冊！

我感覺過飢餓，知道飢餓是怎麼回事，但我接下來要說的故事，講的是另一種飢餓……

這是光燦奪目的爵士年代，歌舞昇平的花都巴黎，布杭家族的獨生女艾蝶兒在鍾愛她的舅公照拂下，在週日沙龍的衣香鬢影中寂寞地成長。

這也是山雨欲來的大戰前夕，艾蝶兒與舊俄貴族之女榭妮亞、失怙的英國青年羅宏，在人生路口找到了彼此，一起對抗著紙醉金迷表象下的虛無暗流。

這時，艾蝶兒的舅公過世了，他將遺產以及與艾蝶兒一同設計的「紫房屋」重建計畫留給了她。但在戰爭的陰影下，這只是家族崩裂的第一個徵兆，而蟄伏體內的飢餓本能也讓艾蝶兒發現，她第一次有機會選擇自己的人生道路……

勒‧克萊喬在榮獲諾貝爾獎後的第一部作品中，回歸家族記憶，以母親在二次大戰前後的成長經歷，寫下這部《飢餓間奏曲》。他以冷靜的語調，用爵士年代的璀燦風華反襯戰禍將至的沉重氛圍，寫出在無聲處聽見驚雷的震撼，也帶出這段不同凡響的戰爭回憶與家族故事。

★本書中文版由「皇冠」出版。

Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents. It is an exploration and a celebration, glittering and exuberant, of the writer's art and of life itself.

Le Clezio was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to a French mother and her first-cousin, a Mauritian doctor of French origin who, being born in Mauritius when the island was under British rule, held a British passport. However, the family was completely Francophone. Jean-Marie Le Clezio has travelled extensively and is articulate in English and Spanish, but his true homeland is very much the French language. He spends his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), and Albuquerque New Mexico.He has published more than 40 books since he won the Renaudot Prize in 1963, age 23, with Le Proces-verbal (The Interrogation), and his works have been translated around the world into 36 languages.