He was going to lose the house and everything in it.

The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would

lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday.

Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world.

He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.

THE UNNAMED is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

約書亞•弗裏斯：美國當代炙手可熱的一綫作傢，曾憑藉處女作《麯終人散》（Then We Came to the End）入圍普利策文學奬和美國國傢圖書奬。2010年齣版全新大作《當愛遠行》，以精準而富有詩意的語言，講述一個令人心碎的愛情故事，再次蜚聲文壇，並被《紐約客》雜誌推選為“最值得關注年輕作傢”。《當愛遠行》在初稿階段就被好萊塢金牌電影製片人斯科特•魯丁購下電影版權，在齣版後更是屢獲殊榮，成為各大暢銷排行榜的常客，並陸續被《紐約客》、《經濟學傢》和亞馬遜網站評選為2010年最佳小說。