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基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New York Review of Books (26 Nov. 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1681378657

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 20.32 x 5 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书作者是《夏日之书》和《姆明一族》的作者，这是一部关于阳光明媚的佛罗里达州退休社区的另类小说。

在《夏日之书》和《真正的骗子》等作品以及她的许多短篇小说中，托芙·杨松一次又一次地被老年人的日常生活所吸引。他们不是作为一个独立的群体，而是作为一个有血有肉的人，和其他群体一样有嫉妒、渴望和欢乐。

因此，难怪她在 20 世纪 70 年代游历美国时，对当时特别具有美国特色的养老院——养老院——着迷，老年人生活在他们紧密相连的特殊世界中。她通过几位养老院居民和员工来描述这个世界，他们在美国因文化分歧而四分五裂，面临着梦想破灭的境地，也面临着自己的死亡。

From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida.

In works like The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as well as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart, but as full-blooded people, with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. 

And so it is no wonder that in her travels through America in the 1970s, she became fascinated with what was then a particularly American instution, the retirement home, where older people live in their particular tightly knit worlds. She describes this world through several of its residents and employees making their way in an America riven by cultural divides and facing the death of its dream, as they confront their own mortality.

作者简介

托芙·杨松（1914-2001）出生于赫尔辛基，曾在斯德哥尔摩和巴黎的艺术学校学习，20 世纪 40 年代回到芬兰后，她的绘画和壁画广受好评。杨松知名的作品“姆明”首次出现在左翼反法西斯芬兰瑞典杂志《Garm》上。杨松还为成年人创作了 11 部小说和短篇小说集，包括《夏日之书》、《真正的骗子》、《公平游戏》和《借用​​记忆的女人》（均以 NYRB 经典出版）。

托马斯·蒂尔翻译过托芙·杨松的《夏日之书》、《真正的骗子》、《公平游戏》，并因此荣获 2007 年至 2009 年瑞典语版萧伯纳翻译奖。他还与西尔维斯特·马扎雷拉合作翻译了杨松的短篇小说集《借用记忆的女人》。他现居马萨诸塞州。

Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was born in Helsinki, attended art schools in Stockholm and Paris, and upon her return to Finland in the 1940s won acclaim for her paintings and murals. It was in the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm, where Jansson's most famous creation, Moomintroll, made his first appearance. Jansson also wrote eleven novels and short-story collections for adults, including The Summer Book, The True Deceiver, Fair Play, and The Woman Who Borrowed Memories (all available as NYRB Classics).

Thomas Teal has translated Tove Jansson's The Summer Book, The True Deceiver, Fair Play, for which he was awarded the Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation from the Swedish for the years 2007 to 2009. He also translated, with Silvester Mazzarella, Jansson's short story collection The Woman Who Borrowed Memories. He lives in Massachusetts.