曼布克獎初選入圍作家Edward Docx的新作《放開我的手》(Let Go My Hand)是一部圍繞著現代父子關係,令人笑淚交織的黑色幽默小說。敘事者路易載著罹患絕症的老父親,從英國到歐陸,一路駛向蘇黎世。他不確定是否到得了目的地,內心的天人交戰從未停歇——這一趟,他是帶父親去向協助安樂死組織報到的。
Edward Docx burst onto the literary scene with his highly-acclaimed debut The Calligrapher(2004). His second novel, Self Help (Pravda in the US) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was long-listed for the Man Booker.