Entitlement

　　電影《斷訊》原著作者新書

　　當金錢帶來影響力，選擇捐助對象的行為是否成了一種特權？

　　和那些需要幫助的人們相比，布魯克幸運多了，雖然她想要的事物清單很長：她希望找到人生的意義、想要改變世界、獲得母親的讚許、更常和朋友相聚，還要完全的獨立。她在慈善基金會的新工作，或許是幫助她一次圓夢的契機：高齡億萬富翁艾雪．賈菲，需要她協助評估基金會的捐助對象。

　　懷抱著理想的布魯克從未想過，即使不是自己的財富，光是有動支的權力就足以改變一個人的價值觀。若說適當的金援可以拯救一整個族群，決定捐助對象的她豈不是掌握了改變世界的權力？難道她就不能享有一小部分的好處嗎？

　　作者魯曼．阿蘭將人性容易被金錢誘惑、扭曲的現象寫得精彩透徹，隨著主角的心境變化，道出現代社會中種族議題、特權階級和人道關懷的敏感關係，令人反覆思索。(文／博客來外文館)

　　A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

　　Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?

　　Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.