Colum McCann Twist

《Twist》是科尔姆·麦凯恩于2025年出版的一部小说，以其独特的叙事风格和深刻的主题探讨，吸引了众多读者的关注。这部作品延续了麦凯恩一贯的文学风格，同时融入了对数字时代人类命运的思考，展现了作者对现代社会复杂性的敏锐洞察‌。

《Twist》讲述了一位爱尔兰记者兼剧作家安东尼·芬内尔（Anthony Fennell）的故事。他被派往深海报道一项水下工程，却在任务中逐渐发现了一个隐藏的世界。小说通过芬内尔的视角，探讨了数字时代中人类与科技、自然与文明之间的复杂关系，揭示了修复与断裂的主题‌。

《Twist》是一部兼具文学性与思想性的作品，适合对现代科技与人类命运感兴趣的读者。麦凯恩通过这部小说，不仅展现了他对数字时代的深刻洞察，也为读者提供了关于人类未来的重要思考‌。

书名：Twist

作者：Colum McCann

简介：An “urgent [and] ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

“The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie

“Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.”

Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.

Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.

When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?