珍妮特·弗雷姆：字母表的边缘 The Edge of the Alphabet Janet Frame，Catherine Lacey

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 296 pages

Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions

Imprint:Fitzcarraldo Editions

ISBN:9781804271186

Published:29 Aug 2024

Classifications:Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Weight:274g

Dimensions:197 x 124 x 20 (mm)

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书籍简介

托比·威瑟斯，一个患有癫痫症的年轻人，在母亲去世后离开了新西兰。在前往英国的船上，他遇到了寻找有意义生活的中年妇女佐伊和自称有很多朋友但待人粗心的爱尔兰人帕特。在他们的疏离感中，三人都开始了在伦敦的新生活，在城市世界的边缘拼凑了一个存在。

《字母表的边缘》（The Edge of The Alphabet）是珍妮特·弗雷姆（Janet Frame）的第三部小说，她是新西兰20世纪重要的作家之一。这本书讲述了身份、后殖民时期的经历，以及在一个孤独的世界中寻找联系，这本书在她诞辰100周年之际在这里出版，凯瑟琳·莱西（Catherine Lacey）为她撰写了新的前言。

Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.

The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published here on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.

作者简介

珍妮特·弗雷姆（1924-2004）是新西兰的小说、短篇小说、诗歌作家，她的三卷本自传《我餐桌上的天使》被简·坎皮恩改编成电影。珍妮特·弗雷姆赢得了许多本地和国际文学奖项，包括英联邦最佳图书奖。她是美国艺术与文学学院的荣誉院士，并拥有两个荣誉博士学位。1983年，她被授予大英帝国勋章，1990年，她被授予新西兰勋章，这是新西兰荣誉。她的作品在世界各地出版，并被翻译成多种语言。

凯瑟琳·莱西是五本书的作者，两部小说是《X传》和《皮尤》。她的荣誉包括布鲁克林公共图书馆图书奖、古根海姆奖学金、怀廷奖、青年狮子小说奖，以及多萝西和刘易斯·b·卡尔曼学者和作家中心的奖学金。她的非虚构作品《Möbius Book》将于2025年出版。

Janet Frame (1924–2004) was a celebrated New Zealand author of novels, short stories, poetry and the three-volume autobiography An Angel at My Table that was adapted for cinema by Jane Campion. Janet Frame won numerous local and international literary prizes including the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. She was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held two honorary doctorates. She was awarded a CBE in 1983 and in 1990 she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country’s highest civil honour. Her work is in print around the world and has been translated into many languages.

Catherine Lacey is the author of five books, most recently the novels Biography of X and Pew. Her honours include the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and a fellowship from The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her first work of non fiction, The Möbius Book, is forthcoming in 2025.