乡间之人 Country People

基本信息

Publication date: July 2026

EAN: 9798217199037

Author: D. Mason

SKU: 21497283

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书籍简介

这部小说讲述了一个家庭离开家乡，踏入未知之地（也就是佛蒙特州）一年的生活，他们抛下了所有舒适的家——这是普利策奖入围者、畅销书《北方森林》的作者、美国当代伟大的作家之一丹尼尔·梅森的一部轻松诙谐、文笔优美的作品。

迈尔斯·克热莱夫斯基是一位忠诚的丈夫，一位慈爱的父亲，他那些睡前故事深受孩子们喜爱。在这个并不盛产松露的地方，他却拥有一条引以为傲的松露猎犬。然而，他也有些迷茫，他的俄罗斯民间故事博士学位迟到了十二年，而且他越来越觉得自己让家人失望了。所以，当他的妻子凯特接受了佛蒙特州一所位于遥远森林中的大学的客座教授职位时，他决定今年一定要重新开始，开启人生的新篇章。

但迈尔斯是一个充满热情的人，用凯特的话来说，他拥有“与任何人、在任何地方都能迅速融入”的超强能力。他刚一抵达，就发觉自己卷入了一群形形色色的人物之中，他们如同他笔下任何民间故事里的人物一般丰富多彩：从幽灵般的树木外科医生到挥舞镰刀的狂热生物化学家，从莎士比亚笔下的妖艳女郎到痴迷于雪花摄影的摄影师——后者用成千上万张索引卡片记录着世间种种错觉，编纂成一本名为《错误观念清单》的书籍。

新朋友、神奇的森林、历史故事：当然，他没有博士学位，但这一切都充满乐趣。直到迈尔斯偶然找到了一个离奇——或许有些荒谬——的当地传说，他很快意识到，这或许并非仅仅是个传说。

《乡村人》这部作品充满欢乐、荒诞却又积极向上，它以明亮的视角探索了婚姻与为人父母与故事的力量，以及我们在日益分裂的世界中如何找到彼此的联系。

A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America’s greatest living writers

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.

But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate’s words, a great capacity “to fall in with anyone, anywhere.” And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.

The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre—perhaps ridiculous—local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.

Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.

作者简介

丹尼尔·梅森出生并成长于北加州。他曾在哈佛大学攻读生物学，后在加州大学旧金山分校获得医学学位。他的一部小说《钢琴调音师》（The Piano Tuner）于2002年出版，一经问世便成为全国畅销书，并已被翻译成27种语言发行。他的其他作品包括《遥远的国度》（A Far Country）、《冬日战士》（The Winter Soldier）和《我人生旅程的记录》（A Registry of My Passage Upon Earth），他的文章也曾发表于《哈珀斯杂志》和《拉帕姆季刊》（Lapham's Quarterly）。他现居旧金山湾区。

Daniel Mason was born and raised in Northern California. He studied biology at Harvard, and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in 2002, was a national bestseller and has since been published in 27 countries. His other works include A Far Country, The Winter Soldier, and A Registry of My Passage Upon Earth, and his writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.