莫娜 英文原版 Mona Pola Oloixarac Adam Morris

基本信息

Format Paperback | 192 pages

Dimensions 127 x 191 x 15mm | 136g

Publication date 15 Mar 2022

Publisher Picador USA

Language English

ISBN10 1250829577

ISBN13 9781250829573

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

来自《野蛮理论》和《黑暗星座》的广受好评的作者宝拉·奥洛伊萨拉克的作品《莫娜》，其中作为“有色人种作家” 的成功被证明是一个年轻的拉丁美洲妇女在瑞典的文学会议上的一个新地狱。

莫娜是一位居住在加利福尼亚的秘鲁作家，外表强硬而尖酸刻薄。她喜欢du品和香烟，当她得知自己是一个人类学上的奇人—— 一个被她的大学珍视的有色人种女作家，因为她带来了罕见的多样性——她嘲笑美国的学术文化和它对身份的执着。

当她被提名为 "欧洲重要文学奖 "时，莫娜看到了一个机会，以摆脱她在阳光下的药物滥用和情欲的困扰，所以她把加利福尼亚的诱惑换成了瑞典靠近北极圈的一个灰色小村庄。现在，她被困在所有倒时差的竞争对手的公司里，这些竞争对手大多是男性，来自日本、法国、亚美尼亚、伊朗和哥伦比亚。虽然他们是孤立的，但作家们做着作家们做的事情:交换赞美，培养嫉妒和私人怨恨，在背后捅对手一刀，并一起跳上床。与此同时，莫娜一直在磕磕绊绊地寻找她无法解释的神秘暴力痕迹。

随着她在斯堪的纳维亚半岛的冒险经历的展开，莫娜发现她与其说是逃离了她的恶魔，不如说是把自己和恶魔关在了荒郊野外。在《莫娜》中，宝拉·奥洛伊萨拉克描绘了一幅催眠的、粗糙的、让人瞠目结舌的肖像，一个女人面对着一个她属于也不属于的潮人精英，作为居高临下的态度和怪异性遭遇的幸存者，她是一个新的女权主义者。但她的过去不会停留在过去，奇怪的力量正在给她带来一生的考验。

From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden.

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity--a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity.

When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain.

As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.

作者简介

宝拉·奥洛伊萨拉克1977年出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯。她的处女作《野蛮理论》(Savage Theories)在阿根廷成为畅销书，并获得优秀翻译图书奖提名。2010年，格兰塔将她评为优秀的年轻西班牙语小说家之一。她被授予2021年埃克尔斯中心&干草节作家奖。奥洛伊萨拉克是《纽约时报》的定期撰稿人，她的小说曾出现在Granta，n+1，The White Review和Freeman的“新写作的未来”杂志上。她以前是加州旧金山的居民，现在居住在巴塞罗那。

Pola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel, Savage Theories, was a breakout bestseller in Argentina and was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, and in 2010, Granta recognized her as one of the best young Spanish-language novelists. She was awarded the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her fiction has appeared in Granta, n+1, The White Review, and an issue of Freeman's on "The Future of New Writing." Pre-viously a resident of San Francisco, California, she currently resides in Barcelona.

译者-Adam Morris