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An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the First Lady and voice of the god Apollo. As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent sixty years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts have embodied, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel was left in draft at Golding's sudden death in 1993 but it is a psychological and historical triumph.真相
因为一本书一炮而红的新锐作家马库斯,被出版社和经纪人追书稿,却遭遇严重的写作障碍,无计可施之下,只好求助于全国知名的文学作家、良师兼益友哈里·戈贝尔,没想到,竟然在无意中发现30多年前的一桩命案:一位15岁的少女诺拉香消玉殒,尸体就埋在戈贝尔家的后院!马库斯是唯一相信恩师清白的人,现在,他必须在极短时间内解决三个问题:一:到底是谁杀了诺拉?二:1975年的那个夏天,到底发生了什么事?三:要怎么靠写作一本书来救人?