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Best known for tackling controversial issues, through richly told fictions, Jodi Picoult's 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the truth and consequences of a high-school shooting in a small town. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old Peter to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author such a captivating storyteller.
這是一本沉重而激烈的小說，作者試圖以小鎮中潛伏的情感來談論人際關系中的不可預測。在新罕布夏的一個小鎮，十七歲的高中生彼得，忍受了多年同學們對他言語和身體上的凌虐，加上他最好朋友為了屈服同僚間的壓迫與慫恿，一個意外事件讓彼得情緒爆發，犯下了一樁永遠改變當地人生活的暴力行為，他如同平日一樣來到學校，然后在十九分鐘內射殺了九名學生和一名老師……作者希望以這一校園暴力事件來討論任何暴力背后都有其復雜的原因，并探討人性情感的不可預測性與錯綜復雜的灰色地帶。
About Author
Jodi Picoult received a degree in creative writing from Princeton and a Master's degree in education from Harvard. Jodi lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Jodi Picoult's novels centre on family, relationships, and the balance of love. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction.
朱迪.皮考特，普林斯頓大學創意寫作學士，哈佛大學教育學碩士。她的作品大多以家庭、人際關系、情感為主題。2003年，獲得美國新英格蘭最佳小說獎。目前她和丈夫以及三個子女居住在新罕布夏州。
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