深情吻别 Big Kiss, Bye-Bye:A Novel

基本信息

ASIN: B0DTP2VC4Q

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publication Date: October 21, 2025

Language: English

Page Count: 224

ISBN-13: 979-8217046645

Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在我们受赞誉、具创造力的小说作家之一的这部充满深情的小说中，一位女性直面了亲密关系的来世。

那些维系生活的东西已被剥离，被搁置。一位女性被迫从城市迁往偏远的乡村，生活在暂时的不确定状态中，所有她留下的记忆萦绕在她的心头。其中挥之不去的是泽维尔的记忆，他一直确信自己比任何人都更了解她，比她更了解自己。泽维尔，她仍然爱着他，却不再渴望他，他无法接受这种被取代的感觉。

一封来自老熟人的意外来信，让她想起了她曾经爱过或渴望过的那些人。每一个人，既是匹配的，又是不匹配的；既是解放的，也是对她自我意识的威胁。他们留下的短暂记忆——一杯洒落的咖啡，一束不想要的花束，一个令人心动的吻——构成了一个充满好奇心的柜子，她不断盘点着，试图探寻亲密关系的本质。与他人建立联系意味着什么？是什么驱使我们去触碰他人，被他人触碰，并保持联系？我们又该如何放下他们？克莱尔-路易丝·贝内特的又一部力作，探索了人们如何进入又离开我们的生活，并将我们永远留在他们手中的奥秘。

A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers

The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept.

An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage –a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss—make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.

作者简介

克莱尔-路易丝·贝内特曾创作两部小说，分别是《池塘》和《19号结账处》。她的短篇小说和散文曾发表于《纽约客》、《纽约时报杂志》、《大西洋月刊》等刊物。她现居爱尔兰戈尔韦附近。

Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of two previous novels, Pond and Checkout 19. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She lives near Galway, Ireland.