The Sisters Brothers

榮獲2011年加拿大總督文學獎
加拿大羅傑斯作家基金會小說獎
入圍曼布克獎、加拿大吉勒文學獎決選

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「赫曼．渥爾姆死期到了！」別名「准將」的老大哥決定買兇殺人，交辦「殺人零失手」的雙槍殺手希斯特兄弟取他小命。從奧勒岡一路追殺到沙加緬度，漫漫長路惹得弟弟伊萊希斯特莫名惆悵，不禁自問「為何渥爾姆必須死？」

　　不像哥哥查理嗜殺成性又貪杯，儼然性情中人的伊萊，質疑自己的維生之道，也質疑他效忠的對象。伊萊自覺與查理拆夥、分道揚鑣的時候到了。就在狹路相逢時，渥爾姆聲稱他握有舉世無雙的淘金祕方。黃沙碧血的淘金場上，在准將與渥爾姆之間，向來心直手快的希斯特兄弟，上演一場逆轉命運的終極對決……

　　作者派崔克．德威特以《淘金殺手》一書向經典拓荒文學致意，卻顛覆地透過弟弟伊萊主述，以惆悵省思卻反而不正經的語調書寫，在滿腹委屈的殺手眼前，不只是英雄鏢客，還有窩囊廢，有騙徒，更不乏三教九流的痞子。藉由一對血脈相連、出生入死、手足情深的殺手兄弟，一段腥風血雨、物慾橫流的旅程，令人時而辛酸，時而會心一笑。

　　Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living–and whom he does it for.

　　With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters–losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

　　★本書中譯版《淘金殺手》由時報出版。

作者簡介

派崔克．德威特（PaickdeWitt）：

　　著有佳評如潮的小說《洗禮》（Ablutions: Notes for a Novel）。

　　1975年生於加拿大卑詩省溫哥華島，曾旅居加州與華盛頓州，目前與妻兒定居奧勒岡州。曾經做過工人、店員、洗碗工和酒保等工作。

　　Patrick deWitt is the author of the critically acclaimed Ablutions: Notes for a Novel. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and son.