★萨默塞特•毛姆奖获奖小说
★英国国民作家麦克尤恩处女作、代表作
★八个情节各异的故事，打造麦氏“青春残酷物语”——
★恐怖、暴烈，残酷、变态，荒唐、魔幻，温柔、感伤
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《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》是英国“国民作家”麦克尤恩的处女作兼成名作，荣获毛姆文学奖，“恐怖伊恩”的绰号由此而诞生。八个短篇分别经由青少年男性的视角出发，讲述了八段情节各异却又情绪共通的故事，或恐怖或暴烈，或残酷或变态，或荒唐或魔幻，同时却既温柔又感伤；就像每个人都会经 历的疯魔而又伤感的青春期，是每个人都可以从中烛照出自我的“青春残酷物语”。

Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow villagers come to regard him as a clairvoyant. Can Shu genuinely see into the future? Is he actually just a basket case? Or is he perhaps more lucid than he seems, and pulling a fast one on everyone?

Ten years have passed since the alien war, and now the line between human and alien is blurred. The film follows two vagrants who were once subjects of a dangerous experiment involving the assimilation of alien and human DNA.