A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality.

This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years.

Praise for The Brothers K

“The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”— The New York Times Book Review

“Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”— Los Angeles Times

“This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”— USA Today

“Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”— San Francisco Chronicle

“ The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”— The Washington Post Book World

“Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”— Chicago Tribune

作者簡介

大衛‧詹姆斯‧鄧肯　David James Duncan

1952年生於美國奧勒岡州波特蘭市。1992年出版的《Ｋ家兄弟》，是他耗費十年心血的代表作，被美國圖書館協會推選為「最好的小說」，只靠著一代代的讀者口耳相傳，默默流傳了二十多年，在亞馬遜書店累積了近乎完美的五顆星評價，幾乎每個讀者都說這是他們畢生最愛的書。

譯者簡介

劉泗翰

資深翻譯，悠遊於兩種文字與文化之間，賣譯為生近二十年，譯作有《四的法則》、《卡瓦利與克雷的神奇冒險》、《櫻草巷的神秘人》、《陌生人的孩子》、《愛的哲學課》、《三郎》等三十餘本。