Intimacies 亲密关系

基本信息

Format：Hardback| 240 pages 

Dimensions: 144x 217x 23mm| 346g 

Publication date: 20 Jul 2021

Publisher：Penguin Putnam Inc 

Imprint: Riverhead Books,U.S. 

ISBN: 9780399576164

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

"写得很好，很有魔力......北村的天赋之一......是为每个场景注入了一针见血的恐惧感....。我在2021年读过的z好的小说之一...... 一部紧张的、情绪化的小说，有目的地在不同的世界之间移动。”--德怀特·加纳，纽约时报 

"紧张，令人不安......《亲密关系》在很大程度上是一个看似熟悉的故事，但很快就会演变成令人迷惑的陌生事物....。北村以她对身体和语言的细微运动的关注，使《亲密关系》扎根于她的叙述者的普通家庭经历，她琐碎的嫉妒，她短暂的猜疑。其效果是一种情感的强度，因为它感觉越来越不可持续而令人揪心。谁能忍受这种对语言的爱、欺骗、承诺和杀戮的力量的原始神经敏感？北村将我们拉过一个不断上升的超意识的恐慌，直到故事的热度最终以希望和解脱的音符打破。但这并不能平息小说的反响，它揭露了现代生活中一些难以理解的道德层面。”--罗恩·查尔斯，《华盛顿邮报》

“一个冷静却又让人不安的大师......北村用强有力的、直接的散文写作，使人读起来很有力量，并使读者为之着迷。”--劳伦·梅克林，《时尚》杂志 

“一部惊险的小说.... 在探索一个人与权力和暴力的接近如何能带来无尽的反响时，北村质疑我们的亲密关系如何能改变我们的生活轨迹。" --《时代》杂志 

“北村的散文优雅地打破了语法惯例......这种风格反映了该书对亲密关系之间的出血线的关注--特别是在真诚和胁迫之间--而北村的巨大才能使这些缝隙变得平滑....。像这样的小说为读者提供了许多工作机会，提出了一系列和谐的问题，而不是提出一个单一的答案。当代美国小说经常提供预先解决的道德难题和明显的敌人，以满足我们对道德无瑕的文化渴望--正确的词语、正确的行为、对无数复杂问题的公正的立场。北村在这种时髦的文学性之外工作，因为他知道，正如z好的作家所做的那样，一个故事的表面主题并不决定它的概念界限；情节摘要对这本书没有任何好处....。北村的作品还包含了对人类行为的敏锐理解，这种理解远远超出了这本简短而引人注目的书的篇幅；她前往了普通作家无法到达的地方。”--凯瑟琳·莱西，《纽约时报》书评 

"[C]ooly written and casts a spell... One of Kitamura's gifts... is to inject every scene with a pinprick of dread.... One of the best novels I've read in 2021... A taut, moody novel that moves purposefully between worlds." --Dwight Garner, New York Times 

"[I]ntense, unsettling... Intimacies is very much a story that seems to be something familiar but soon morphs into something disorientingly strange.... [W]ith her Jamesian attention to the slightest movement of bodies and words, Kitamura keeps Intimacies rooted to the ordinary domestic experiences of her narrator, her petty jealousies, her passing suspicions. The effect is a kind of emotional intensity that's gripping because it feels increasingly unsustainable. Who could endure that raw-nerve sensitivity to the power of language to love, to deceive, to promise, to kill? Kitamura pulls us through a rising panic of hyper-awareness until the story's fever finally breaks with a note of hope and relief. But that can't quell the novel's reverberations, which expose something incomprehensible about the moral dimensions of modern life. --Ron Charles, Washington Post 

A master of cool disquiet... Kitamura writes with forceful, direct prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader mesmerized. --Lauren Mechling, Vogue 

[A] thriller of a novel.... In exploring how one's proximity to power and violence can hold endless repercussions, Kitamura interrogates how our intimacies can change the course of our lives." --Time 

Kitamura's prose elegantly breaks grammatical convention... this style mirrors the book's concern with the bleeding lines between intimacies -- especially between the sincere and the coercive -- while Kitamura's immense talent smooths the seams.... A novel like this one offers the reader much to work with, raising a chorus of harmonic questions rather than squealing a single answer. Contemporary American novels too often deliver pre-solved moral quandaries and obvious enemies in service to our cultural craving for ethical perfection -- the correct word, the right behavior, the sole and righteous position on myriad complex issues. Kitamura works outside of this trendy literality by knowing, as the best writers do, that a story's apparent subject does not determine its conceptual limits; plot summary would do this book no justice.... Kitamura's work also contains a keen understanding of human behavior, one that reaches far beyond the pages of this brief and arresting book; she travels to places that ordinary writers cannot go. --Catherine Lacey, The New York Times Book Review 

作者简介

凯蒂·北村的全新小说《分离》曾入围格雷戈尔冯雷佐里奖，并成为《纽约时报》的著名书籍。它被十几家出版物评为年度z佳图书，并被翻译成16种语言，而且正在被改编为电影。她的前两部小说《飘向森林》和《The Longshot》都入围了纽约公共图书馆的青年狮子小说奖。作为兰南基金会和圣玛达莱纳基金会的奖学金获得者，凯蒂为《纽约时报》、《卫报》、《格兰塔》、《BOMB杂志》、《三重天幕》和《Frieze》等出版物写作。她在纽约大学的创意写作课程任教。

Katie Kitamura's most recent novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications and translated into sixteen languages, and is being adapted for film. Her two previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, were both finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena Foundation, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB Magazine, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.