射手 The Archer

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages

Publisher:Workman Publishing

Imprint:Algonquin Books

ISBN:9781643752549

Published:9 Aug 2022

Weight:260g

Dimensions:139 x 209 x 33 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在这部原创且引人入胜的小说中，维迪亚成长于 20 世纪 60 年代和 70 年代的孟买，她的童年经历是母亲和小弟弟在家中令人心碎的缺席，然后又令人困惑地重新出现。维迪亚焦躁不安、善于观察，渴望与她聪明而又越来越烦恼的母亲建立联系，有一天，她偷偷看了一间教室，那里的女孩们正在学习卡塔克舞，这是一种令人眼花缭乱的、有着数百年历史的舞蹈形式，需要极高的纪律性和专注力。她对艺术超越的追求和通过卡塔克舞逃避现实很快成为了她生活的组织原则，即使她离开家去上大学，并爱上了她的好朋友。随着不确定的未来迫在眉睫，她要面对爱情、艺术和她自己不好的母亲的遗产之间的紧张关系。

施鲁蒂·斯瓦米 (Shruti Swamy) 的《射手》充满诗意，感性十足，大胆描绘了一位独特的女性，她努力追求艺术家的生活，同时探索欲望、责任和身体的极限。这也是一个激动人心、令人沉浸其中的故事，讲述了艺术的变革力量，以及当我们准备好时，爱情可以打开的可能性。

In this original and transfixing novel, Vidya comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, her childhood marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya one day peeks into a classroom where girls are learning kathak, a dazzling, centuries-old dance form that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Her pursuit of artistic transcendence and escape through kathak soon becomes the organizing principle of her life, even as she leaves home for college and falls in complicated love with her best friend. As the uncertain future looms, she must confront the tensions between romance, art, and the legacy of her own imperfect mother.

Lyrical and deeply sensual, Shruti Swamy’s The Archer is a bold portrait of a singular woman striving toward life as an artist while navigating desire, duty, and the limits of the body. It is also an electrifying and utterly immersive story about the transformative power of art, and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.

作者简介

施鲁蒂·斯瓦米 (Shruti Swamy) 是短篇小说集《房子就是身体》的作者，该小说集入围 Pen/Robert Bingham 奖、洛杉矶时报处女作奖，并入围故事奖。她的作品由《巴黎评论》和 McSweeney’s 出版，并被选入欧·亨利短篇小说奖。她现居旧金山。

Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection, A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the Pen/Robert Bingham Prize, the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco.