Descent-品德

作者：Johnston Tim

书名：Descent《品德》

中文简介：Descent《品德》中肖恩和凯特琳是卡特兰德家的小兄妹，他们都只有十来岁，一次全家人去洛基山度假，两人早起晨跑，结果却只有肖恩一个人跑回家。小说接着跳叙一年后，卡特兰德一家如何面对失去亲人的伤痛。他们不知道那天到底发生了什么。不过，卡特琳最终的命运却让所有人大吃一惊。

英文简介：The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or seen on TV.

As their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why weren’t they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin’s disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life?