星期三的孩子 美籍华裔女作家 李翊云 Yiyun Li  英文原版 Wednesday’s Child

基本信息

ISBN: 9780008531867

ISBN-10: 0008531862

Published: 14th September 2023

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Number of Pages: 256

Audience: General Adult

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Dimensions (cm): 22.4 x 14.0 x 2.4

Weight (kg): 0.37

内容介绍

《鹅之书》（The Book of Goose）获奖作者李依云历时十年创作的全新短篇小说集，内容涵盖失落、疏离、衰老和当代生活的奇异之处。

一位悲痛欲绝的母亲为她失去的每个人制作了一张电子表格。一位教授与她的理发师发生了一段令人不安的亲密关系。

每年，一个不安分的女人都会收到一封来自陌生男人的电子邮件，这个男人的年龄是她的两倍，而且远在几个州之外。

在李依云的故事中，人们努力过着平凡的生活，直到这样的生活变得难以为继，直到表面出现裂痕，死亡、暴力、疏远等巨大的神秘力量浮出水面。

即使是日常生活，也充满了意义，镶嵌着不可磨灭的细节：一罐偷来的蜂蜜、一堆受伤的蚂蚁、一张藏了多年的照片，直到它必须被人看到。

李碧华是一位令人惊叹的原创作家，一位对立面的炼金术士：温柔而不伤感，形而上而直率，风趣而恐怖，无所不知，却又敏锐地意识到我们无法知道的事情有多少。

她的长篇小说和回忆录深受读者喜爱，在此，她又回到了自己最早期的创作状态，收集了一些短篇小说和一部从未在英国出版过的出色的长篇小说。

合在一起，《星期三的孩子》中的故事以李碧华标志性的令人不安的美和灼人的智慧阐述了生活的真实代价。

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces – death, violence, estrangement – come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.

Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.