繼任者

Tułacze #3

by Marina Dyachenko, 瑪麗娜·狄亞錢科, 吳淑華 (Translator)

金色的東西在陌生老人的手掌裡閃爍著。老人玻璃般透亮的眼底掠過一抹陰影，無睫毛、厚皮的眼瞼眨了一下：「你的家庭依舊帶著印記，梭爾。這是命運。」

舊城每到歡騰節依習俗要在廣場上砍下罪犯的頭顱，多年後改由街頭藝人用戲劇表演斬首來娛樂群眾。許多流浪劇團來到城內只為賺取大批賞金。

衛兵隊上校伊葛·梭爾、大學院長朵莉亞的兒子路偃爾，在繼任了傑出英雄和知名學者的貴族後裔身分壓力下成長，習慣安靜不被注意。而命運安排了喜劇演員唐塔莉與他相遇……

一次戲劇演出之後，讓伊葛想起了懦弱之咒，從此不知所蹤，整個家族陷入愁雲慘霧。路偃爾為踏上尋父之旅而加入了唐塔莉的流浪劇團。

勒胥修會的聖魂依然作祟——塔樓的「勒胥密令」、黑荒疫的散播、流匪之亂、孩童之死、伊葛和朵莉亞隱藏多年的祕密——在兩人的旅途中一一被揭開……

當再一次先知咒符的黃金沾上銹蝕，一個陌生人站在門邊時，他是選擇要打開門讓第三元力進來毀滅世界還是選擇死亡？

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Марина Дяченко
Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko - co-authors of novels, short fiction, plays and scripts. They primarily write in Russian (and in the past also in Ukrainian) with several novels translated into English and published in the United States. These include, Vita Nostra (2012), The Scar (2012), The Burned Tower (2012), Age of Witches (2014) and Daughter from the dark (2020). The primary genres of their books are modern speculative fiction, fantasy, and literary tales.

Reviews

[Andy Boroditsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, very well written, but is based on a central premise that I can’t agree with, because it’s absolutely improbable. People don’t behave this way. If not for this huge gaping hole I would totally love this book, it would gave been 5 stars. The previous one, the scar, did not gave this and was a masterpiece.

[Hiu Ying]

2023/01/24