Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

基本信息

作者: Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Paperback: 288页

出版社: Vintage UK (2019年7月11日)

语种: 英语

ISBN: 9781784708818                                       

产品尺寸及重量: 198 x 129 x 18 (mm) | 200g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

钱德拉，是英国知名的经济学教授，也是个怪老头，对他来说，今天本该是光鲜亮丽的一天。

诺贝尔经济学奖即将公布，他是最有希望获奖的人，但生活似乎跟他开了个天大的玩笑：他在欢呼中落选，还被一辆自 行 车撞进了医院……

繁忙的工作、古怪专横的个性，让钱德拉教授与妻儿渐行渐远。在人生的这个艰难时刻，身边空无一人，他感到一种从未有过的孤独。

他脑海中的声音在说：“钱德拉，你是个不可救药的失败者。你把你的生活搞砸了……作为一名经济学家、一位父亲、一个丈夫。你也许最好死了算了。你的生活没有价值。”

Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bicycle hit-and-run—but so much more than the sum of his parts.

In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes but his life’s work. He’s just narrowly missed the Nobel Prize (again), and even though he knows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has other ideas.

All this work. All this success. All this stress. It’s killing him. He needs to take a break, start enjoying himself. In short, says his doctor, he should follow his bliss. Professor Chandra doesn’t know it yet, but he’s about to embark on the journey of a lifetime.

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一个人在生命中遇到了种种困境，他愤怒、他自责、他痛苦至极。渐渐地，他开始自省，开始接纳自己，也学会珍惜平凡生活中的点点滴滴。终于，在人生的转折点，他踏上了追寻幸福的旅程。 ——《出版人周刊》

一部令人愉悦的迷人小说。文笔优雅诙谐，始终带着人性的关怀基调。钱德拉的自我意识逐渐觉醒：没有幸福可言的人生，根本不值得过。这个故事让我内心充满了力量。 ——《泰晤士报》

近期读到的无比有趣的书！钱德拉是一个令人愉快的主人公：乖戾、偏执、严谨、古怪得不合逻辑、书呆子、情感贫瘠，让人同情。这是一个传奇式流浪冒险故事。 ——《星期日泰晤士报》

作者简介

拉杰夫•巴卢 (Rajeev Balasubramanyam)，英国作家，毕业于牛津大学，后获得剑桥大学硕士学位和兰卡斯特大学创意写作博士学位。他曾在印度、英国、中国居住过，还是中国香港大学的研究学者。2004年，他被授予35岁英国作家克拉丽莎卢卡奖。2019年，《 钱德拉教授想做一个幸福的人》在英国出版后，鼓舞了很多读者。他们爱上了这个怪老头钱德拉，并亲切地称这本书为“年度幸福之书”。拉杰夫希望读者读完这部小说，“能够重新审视自己的生活，重新燃起对生活的热情和希望，并停下了思考：什么才是自己生命中真正重要的事情”。

Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire and studied at Oxford, Cambridge and Lancaster universities. He is the prize-winning author of In Beautiful Disguises. He has lived in London, Manchester, a remote Suffolk beach, Kathmandu and Hong Kong, where he was a Research Scholar in the Society of Scholars at Hong Kong University. He was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation, for writers with a meditation practice, and has been writer-in-residence at Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. His journalism and short fiction have appeared in the Washington Post, The Economist, the New Statesman, London Review of Books, Paris Review, McSweeney's and many others. He currently lives and works in Berlin.