李翊云：星期三的孩子 Wednesdays Child: Stories

基本信息

Format:Hardback 256 pages

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Imprint:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN:9780374606374

Published:5 Sep 2023

Weight:454g

Dimensions:210 x 137 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

★ 《鹅之书》（The Book of Goose）一书的作者屡获殊荣，其新书集讲述了失落、疏离、衰老以及当代生活的奇特之处。

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。在其他地方，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，人们努力追求平凡的生活，直到这样的生活难以为继，直到表面出现裂痕，巨大的神秘力量--死亡、暴力、疏离--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。

李翊云是一位真正具有创作性的作家，一位对立面的炼金术士：温柔而不伤感，形而上学而直率，风趣而恐怖，无所不知而又异常清楚地意识到我们无法知道的事情有多少。她的小说和回忆录深受读者喜爱，在此，她又回到了自己早期的创作状态，收集了曾刊登在《纽约客》、《Zoetrope》等杂志上的作品。《星期三的孩子》中的故事创作时间跨度长达十年，这些故事以她特有的令人不安的美感和智慧，阐述了生活的物质和情感代价--流亡、同化、失落、爱。

A new collection―about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life―by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, 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 the 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 truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living―exile, loss, love―with her trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.

作者简介

李翊云（Yiyun Li，1972年11月4日-），女，旅美华人作家、美国艺术与科学院院士。祖籍浙江省缙云县稠门，出生于北京，先后毕业于北京大学生命科学学院、美国爱荷华大学，免疫专业硕士，艺术创作硕士。

美国加州大学戴维斯分校任教，兰登书屋的签约作者。李翊云坚持用英文写作，并且拒绝将自己的作品翻译成中文。主要作品有《千年敬祈》、《金童玉女》、《漂泊者》等，已经被翻译成西班牙语、意大利语、法语、日语、韩语、俄语、阿拉伯语、希腊语、波兰语、丹麦语、荷兰语、土耳其语、葡萄牙语、瑞典语、挪威语、保加利亚语、波斯语、捷克语、越南语等十几种语言。

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction―Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl―and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.