星期三的孩子（李翊云） Wednesday’s Child

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 256 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:Fourth Estate Ltd

ISBN:9780008531904

Published:10 Oct 2024

Weight:270g

Dimensions:198 x 129 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一位悲痛的母亲制作了一份电子表格，记录了她失去的每个人。一位教授与她的理发师发展出一种令人不安的亲密关系。每年，一位焦躁不安的女人都会收到一封电子邮件，发件人是她年龄的两倍，而且远在数个州之外。在李翊云的故事中，人们努力过着平凡的生活，直到这种生活变得无法维持，直到表面破裂，巨大的神秘力量——死亡、暴力、疏远——暴露出来。即使是日常生活也充满意义，布满了不可磨灭的细节：一罐偷来的蜂蜜、一堆受伤的蚂蚁、一张藏了很多年的照片，直到它要被人看到。

李翊云是一位令人惊叹的原创作家，一位对立面的炼金术士：温柔而无情，形而上学而直率，有趣而恐怖，无所不知，但又敏锐地意识到我们无法知道多少。李因小说和回忆录而广受喜爱，此次她回归了自己的创作形式，收集了短篇小说和一部从未在英国出版过的精彩中篇小说。总而言之，《星期三的孩子》中的故事以李标志性的令人不安的美感和灼热的智慧表达了生活的真实代价。

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces – death, violence, estrangement – come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.

Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday’s Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.

作者简介

李翊云著有八本小说和两本非小说类书籍，包括《理由的尽头》和《亲爱的朋友，来自我的生活，我写给你的生活》。她的作品发表在《纽约客》、《纽约书评》等杂志上。她获得的荣誉包括《卫报》初本书奖、《星期日泰晤士报》短篇小说奖、温德姆-坎贝尔奖、麦克阿瑟基金会奖学金、古根海姆奖学金、PEN/Jean Stein 奖和 2022 年 PEN/Malamud 短篇小说杰出奖。她在普林斯顿大学任教，住在新泽西州普林斯顿。

Yiyun Li is the author of eight books of fiction and two books of nonfiction, including Where Reasons End, and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her accolades include the Guardian First Book Award, the Sunday Times Short Story Award, a Windham-Campbell prize, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2022 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches at Princeton University, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.