解放日 乔治·桑德斯 林肯在中阴界作者 英文原版 Liberation Day

基本信息

• 出版社 ? : ? Random House Trade Paperbacks (2023年 10月 10日)
• 语言 ? : ? 英语
• 平装 ? : ? 256页
• ISBN-10 ? : ? 0525509615
• ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0525509615
• 商品重量 ? : ? 181 g
• 尺寸 ? : ? 13.11 x 1.47 x 20.27 cm

内容介绍

《纽约时报》畅销书--"我们极具创造力的小说家之一再次回归，他的作品完美无缺、体裁多变，直指我们民族性格的深渊。. . ."--《奥普拉日报》

布克奖获得者乔治-桑德斯（George Saunders）携《纽约时报》畅销书《十二月十日》（Tenth of December）之后的首部短篇小说集归来。

年度极佳图书之一： 《纽约时报书评》、《纽约客》、《奥普拉日报》、NPR、《时代周刊》、《今日美国》、《卫报》、

《Esquire》、《柯克斯评论》、《书单》、《图书馆杂志》。

这位 "英国出色的短篇小说家"（《时代》）又推出了一本大师级作品集，探讨了权力、道德和正义等观念，

直指与人类共同生活的真谛。桑德斯以其标志性的散文--诙谐风趣、不伤感、细腻入微--不断给读者带来挑战和惊喜：

这是一本多棱镜式的共鸣故事集，涵盖了欢乐与绝望、压迫与革命、奇异幻想与残酷现实。

"情书 "是祖父写给孙子的一封充满温情的信，在未来（并不遥远，但却非常可信）乌托邦式的政治局势中，

它提醒我们对理想、对自己、对彼此的义务。"食尸鬼》的故事发生在科罗拉多州一个地下游乐园的地狱主题区域，

讲述了一个名叫布莱恩的孤独、道德复杂的人物的经历，他开始质疑自己认为理所当然的一切现实。在《母亲节》中，

两个爱着同一个男人的女人在冰雹暴雨中进行了一场存在主义的清算。在《埃利奥特-斯宾塞》中，

八十九岁的主人公发现自己被洗脑，记忆被 "清除"--他是一个计划的受害者，在这个计划中，贫穷、脆弱的人被重新编程，

并被部署为政治抗议者。而 "我的房子"--在短短七页的篇幅里--让人感受到了梦想无法实现的阴霾和衰败的不可避免。

这九个颠覆性的、深刻的、重要的故事共同构成了一个案例，让我们以桑德斯的宽宏大量和清醒的目光来看待这个世界，即使是在荒诞的情况下。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah Daily
 
Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal

The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

“Love Letter” is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. “Ghoul” is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In “Mother’s Day,” two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In “Elliott Spencer,” our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory “scraped”—a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And “My House”—in a mere seven pages—comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay.

Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.