When She Woke-当她醒来时

作者：Hillary Jordan

书名：When She Woke《当她醒来时》

中文背景：When She Woke《当她醒来时》是美国作家希拉里·乔丹于2011年10月出版的第二部小说。这部小说是对纳撒尼尔·霍桑的《红字》的反乌托邦式的重新想象，故事发生在一个未来的神权统治的美国，在那里，犯罪分子不是被监禁和改造，而是被惩罚“染色”——他们的肤色经过基因改造以适应他们的犯罪——并且犯人被重新送到普通人群中以尽可能地生存下去。

英文简介：Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed―their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes―and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder.

In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.