No One Is Here Except All of Us

　　以無邊無際的想像力，安定亂世中恐懼的心靈
　　一代接一代的故事，形塑一個又一個的精彩人生！

　　故事發生在1939年的羅馬尼亞，有感於戰爭氣息逐漸地逼進，居住於猶太村落裡的族人們回想起數千年前祖先橫渡大海、穿山越嶺地來到此地落腳；眼前，他們已經無處可去。

　　在生命面臨威脅、前途混沌不明的此刻，想像與信仰便成為生活中的重要支柱。大家決定聽取一個小女孩和河堤上神秘男子的建議，他們必須重塑這個世界！首先是斷絕任何現有的人際關係，命運不存在，歷史被拋卻，所有親屬、工作與頭銜像是洗牌一樣重新分配。在集體的想像中，他們自絕於外界，活在一個非常安全的地域裡。

　　幾年後，故事裡口述的女孩長大成人，當她不得不走出封閉的村莊去尋找丈夫與小孩時，是否將成為這些族人進入真實世界的契機？

　　(文/博客來編譯)

　　In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are reassigned. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, eventually overtaking it, and soon our narrator-the girl, grown into a young mother-must flee her village, move from one world to the next, to find her husband and save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, No One Is Here Except All Of Us explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.