Good luck, Mr. Rich

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Editor's recommendation◆ I don't like a society where only those with money have dignity. I like a society where everyone is treated as a human being.
◆ This severely underestimated novel by Vonnegut, the father of black humor, has been re-translated and published after being out of print for over 20 years!
◆ Haruki Murakami, Atwood, Bolaño, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Satoshi Kon, Park Chan-wook, Mu Xin, Mai Jia... all love to read Vonnegut.
◆ The author Vonnegut is the spiritual mentor of several generations of young people in the United States, and almost every young person has a copy of his books.
◆ "Vonnegut's novels are both funny and sad. His pain is never serious. He is unique." - Doris Lessing (Nobel Prize winner in Literature)
◆ This is one of the few novels in Vonnegut’s life that he gave himself an A!
◆ Reading Vonnegut is to use black humor to resist absurd reality.
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Synopsis: The wealthy Rosewater family has a mentally unstable heir.

He has a Ph.D. in law from Harvard University, but he only wants to be a firefighter; he could become the President of the United States with a little brainpower, but he has to answer complaints from the poor in an office in a remote village; he has everything a person wants, but life says to him, "Give, give, all to you," but he answers, "No, no, I don't want it."

In this society where only money can bring dignity, he spent all his money and embarked on a path of being abandoned by everyone, just to solve a difficult problem: how to love those who are useless?

His absurd words are actually the voice of conscience, which is dying in this money-oriented society, saying, "Damn it, you have to be a good person."

2023-06-01

文汇出版社

Duoke Culture

240

9787549640102