Remarkably Bright Creatures (Chinese Edition)

by Shelby Van Pelt

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Sometimes a short synopsis is all you need: A detective octopus helps a grieving aquarium employee solve the mystery of her missing son. It’s certainly unique in vessel, but the themes of coping, recovering, and moving forward resonate whether you have two arms or eight.

编辑推荐

这是一个孤僻老太和超智慧章鱼，互相帮助互相救赎的治愈系故事。在这本书中，我们得以想象人与章鱼的真实互动，认识人与动物之间无需言语的信任。谢尔比·范·佩尔特发挥虚构故事的力量，选择以悲伤开启，以救赎作收，纵然情节通俗，结局皆大欢喜，但独特的章鱼视角让一切变得清新鲜活，加上流畅自然的叙事、温暖幽默的调性，伴随真挚友情与动人亲情，作者出色地将散落各处的角色一一放回属于自己的位置，这样治愈又温暖的书，特别适合低谷期的人看，阅读的过程，像是给心灵一个大大的拥抱。 ★goodreads2022"读者选择奖"最佳小说和最佳处女作提名，80万读者倾力推荐，评分高达4.38。 ★长据亚马逊网站畅销榜，《纽约时报》畅销榜连续在榜64周。 ★2023年奥迪奖年度有声书提名。 ★《好管家》杂志、《魅力》杂志2022年最佳图书 ★影视版即将登陆Netflix，其导演为奥利维亚·纽曼（导演过《沼泽深处的女孩》）；莎莉·菲尔德（参演过《阿甘正传》）及路易斯·普尔曼（参演过《壮志凌云：独行侠》）共同主演。此外，陈冲也将出演里面的角色。

内容简介

这是一本关于人与动物之间温暖友情的治愈小说。 托娃是个七十岁的老太太，在水族馆当夜间清洁工。拖地、抠掉黏在暗处的口香糖、擦水族箱玻璃上的指纹......托娃尽可能让自己忙碌，以忘记那众所周知的伤痛：唯一的儿子三十年前在一艘船上神秘失踪，相守多年的老伴又因病过世。选择水族馆还有另一个理由，她喜欢跟这些水生动物"对话"，特别是一只名为马塞卢斯的太平洋巨型章鱼。 马塞卢斯被囚禁在水族馆里超过三年半，非常怕人类，总是躲起来，直到某次托娃发现它在水箱外，救它重返水中，一人一章鱼才真正建立起友谊。 人类很难想象一只章鱼能有多聪明，但拥有三颗心脏、八条手臂、五亿个神经元的马塞卢斯不仅能察觉人类常见的盲点、荒谬行径，甚至推断出了托娃的儿子失踪当晚发生的事情。为了回报这段友谊，马塞卢斯利用无脊椎动物身体所能掌握的每一个技巧，在为时已晚之前为她揭开真相......

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798349373732
Publisher:	TaoTao Publishing
Publication date:	05/25/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	272 KB
Language:	Chinese

About the Author

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Shelby Van Pelt lives in the suburbs of Chicago with her family. Remarkably Bright Creatures is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

[B]rilliant upcoming novel about hope and reckoning."

Business Insider 

[B]eautiful novel about friendship and family.” 

GoodHousekeeping.com 

Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut about what it feels like to have love taken from you, only to find it again in the most unexpected places. . . . Memorable and tender.

Washington Post 

Truly original and touching, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story of family, community, and optimism in spite of darkness. Prepare to fall in love with a most exceptional octopus.

Helen Hoang

Remarkably Bright Creatures is the rarest of feats: a book that manages to be wry and wise, charming and surprising, and features one of the most intriguing and satisfying characters I’ve encountered in fiction in a very long time—Marcellus the Octopus. I don’t know how Shelby Van Pelt managed to make this uncommon tale sing so beautifully, but sing it does, and I defy you to put it down once you’ve started.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Shelby Van Pelt has done the impossible. She’s created a perfect story with imperfect characters, that is so heartwarming, so mysterious, and so completely absorbing, you won’t be able to put it down because when you’re not reading this book you’ll be hugging it.”

Jamie Ford

"A unique and luminous book."

Booklist (starred review)

Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing. Shelby Van Pelt makes good on this wild conceit, somehow making me love a misanthropic octopus, but her writing is so finely tuned that it's a natural element of a larger story about family, about loss, and the electricity of something found.

Kevin Wilson

The best books about grief find a way to illuminate the darkness of loss, and Remarkably Bright Creatures offers a masterclass."

Marie Claire

As Van Pelt’s zippy, fun-to-follow prose engages at every turn, readers will find themselves rooting for the many characters, hoping that they’ll find whatever it is they seek. Each character is profoundly human, with flaws and eccentricities crafted with care. But what makes Van Pelt’s novel most charming and joyful is the tender friendship between species, and the ways Tova and Marcellus make each other ever more remarkable and bright.

BookPage

Infused with heartfelt humor, Van Pelt’s elegant portrait of a widowed woman who finds understanding and connection with a clever octopus is refreshingly, if surprisingly, relatable. Despite the unorthodox relationship at its core, the debut novel offers a wholly original meditation on grief and the bonds that keep us afloat.

Elle

Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut about what it feels like to have love taken from you, only to find it again in the most unexpected places. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington Post 

“A heartwarming novel to suit any mood.” — New York Times

“Infused with heartfelt humor, Van Pelt’s elegant portrait of a widowed woman who finds understanding and connection with a clever octopus is refreshingly, if surprisingly, relatable. Despite the unorthodox relationship at its core, the debut novel offers a wholly original meditation on grief and the bonds that keep us afloat.” — Elle

“The best books about grief find a way to illuminate the darkness of loss, and Remarkably Bright Creatures offers a masterclass." —  Marie Claire

“[B]rilliant upcoming novel about hope and reckoning." — Business Insider 

“ [B]eautiful novel about friendship and family.”  — GoodHousekeeping.com 

“As Van Pelt’s zippy, fun-to-follow prose engages at every turn, readers will find themselves rooting for the many characters, hoping that they’ll find whatever it is they seek. Each character is profoundly human, with flaws and eccentricities crafted with care. But what makes Van Pelt’s novel most charming and joyful is the tender friendship between species, and the ways Tova and Marcellus make each other ever more remarkable and bright.” — BookPage

“A debut novel about a woman who befriends an octopus is a charming, warmhearted read.” — Kirkus Reviews

"A unique and luminous book." — Booklist (starred review)

“Remarkably Bright Creatures is the rarest of feats: a book that manages to be wry and wise, charming and surprising, and features one of the most intriguing and satisfying characters I’ve encountered in fiction in a very long time—Marcellus the Octopus. I don’t know how Shelby Van Pelt managed to make this uncommon tale sing so beautifully, but sing it does, and I defy you to put it down once you’ve started.” — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of Good Company and The Nest

“Shelby Van Pelt has done the impossible. She’s created a perfect story with imperfect characters, that is so heartwarming, so mysterious, and so completely absorbing, you won’t be able to put it down because when you’re not reading this book you’ll be hugging it.”
— Jamie Ford, author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy and The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“Truly original and touching, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story of family, community, and optimism in spite of darkness. Prepare to fall in love with a most exceptional octopus.” — Helen Hoang, author of The Heart Principle

“Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing. Shelby Van Pelt makes good on this wild conceit, somehow making me love a misanthropic octopus, but her writing is so finely tuned that it's a natural element of a larger story about family, about loss, and the electricity of something found.” — Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here

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