The Road-长路

作者：Cormac McCarthy

书名：The Road《长路》

中文简介：《长路》（The Road）是美国作家科马克·麦卡锡2006年的一部长篇小说。这是一个末日后的故事，讲述一个父亲和他的小儿子耗时数月的一段旅程。这之前，一场未知的灾难已经摧毁了大部分文明，几乎所有生命也都凋零殆尽。这部小说获得2007年普利策小说奖，以及2006年的詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克小说纪念奖。2009年，该书被改编为电影《末路浩劫》。

英文简介：A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.