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Little Bird of Heaven   作者：Joyce Carol Oates   出版日期：2011 / 04 / 29   出版社：HarperCollins   ISBN : 9780007358212   原價：NT 283 元   售價：NT 227 元

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Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her longtime lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers's son Aaron and Eddy's daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other's father is guilty. Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Joyce Carol Oates, in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. By the novel's end, the fated lovers, meeting again as adults, are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love and redemptive yearning. With Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates once again confirms her place as one of the most outstanding writers at work today.

小說將場景定格在紐約一個名叫斯巴達充滿神秘色彩的小鎮上，探索二十世紀晚期美國的情色浪漫與悲劇般的暴力神秘交融現象。 一名叫佐伊·克魯勒的少婦兼年輕的母親被殘忍地謀殺了，斯巴達警方鎖定了兩名主要疑犯： 形同陌路的丈夫德爾雷與長期的情人埃迪·迪爾。克魯勒的兒子亞倫與埃迪的女兒克麗斯塔相互仰慕，但都堅信對方的父親才是殺人兇手。

本書是作者喬伊絲·卡羅爾·奧茨的經典之作，分別以亞倫及克麗斯塔的口吻進行敘述。在這部小說中，激烈的性愛與失落的痛苦相互交織，溫柔與殘忍緊密得幾乎無法分離開來。