GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD（ISBN=） 英文原版

Praise for Michael Chabon

“Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly
spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with
their beauty and their style.”
–The New York Times

“[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America.”
–The Christian Science Monitor

“[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a
writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and
immensely appealing generosity.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking
impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and
reading.”
–Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

“Chabon’s writing is elegant and limber.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny’s to his Pulitzer
Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has
mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary
gold.”
–Bookmarks

From the Hardcover edition.

Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, sprang from an early passion for
the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books.
Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking
spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre
Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a
wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor,
cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of
Scheherazade’s most tantalizing tales. They’re an odd pair, to be
sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant
physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a
gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism
as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin,
comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus
Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving
however they can-as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced
bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money.
No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they’ve left many a
fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and
made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.
None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into
service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire.
Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered
young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will
demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . .
. not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply
the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become
generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that
getting there-along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil
emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such
stuff as the grandest adventures are made of-will be much more than
half the fun. “From the Hardcover edition.”

Michael Chabon is the author of The
Mysteries of Pittsburgh; Wonder Boys, which was made into a
critically acclaimed film; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
& Clay, which won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize; The Final Solution: A Story of Detection; and The
Yiddish Policemen’s Union. He is also the author of two
short-story collections and a young adult novel, Summerland.
He lives in Berkeley, California.