苏童：夜间故事（精装） Midnight Stories

基本信息

Format:Hardback 216 pages

Publisher:ACA Publishing Limited

Imprint:Sinoist Books

ISBN:9781838905965

Published:29 Nov 2024

Weight:408g

Dimensions:224 x 145 x 12 (mm)

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书籍简介

苏童大概是有国际影响力的中国当代作家之一，拥有广泛的大众读者。苏童被称为短篇小说之王，他喜欢短篇小说，喜欢读别人的短篇，也喜欢写。他坚持认为短篇小说其实是成年人的童话，可以“让你触摸到文学的所有肌理、脉络”。他的短篇小说可以说是微言大义，也可以说是一唱三叹，甚至可以称之为微观艺术。

本书是他的短篇故事选集，所以研读苏童的短篇集是一件非常有意思的事情。知名作家格非有一句评语十分准确“苏童的小说看起来写得漫不经心，突然宕开一笔余味无穷。”

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不公平的待遇会让你死在水中

* 乡巴佬的生命不值一个西瓜？

自从镇民记事以来，上游的船民就一直用船把西瓜运到铁兴桥的市场。这种关系在好的情况下也不稳定，当一个小贩死了，情况很快就恶化了，引发了水果摊贩和他们的城市客户之间的激烈争斗。

在随后的不安的平静中，一位孤独的年迈母亲希望驾船回家，以维持一家人的生计。但在这场混乱之后，没有人知道她死去儿子的驳船去了哪里。她能指望这个仍然因暴乱和大规模逮捕而摇摇欲坠的小镇提供多少帮助？

残忍与善良交织在获奖作家苏童的新短篇小说集里，其独特的超现实主义风格既如噩梦般恐怖又充满抒情，让人想起一场噩梦，却又充满欢乐和希望。

A raw deal can leave you dead in the water

*The life of a country bumpkin is worth no more than a melon?

The boat-dwellers upriver have been punting watermelons down to the market by Tiexing bridge for as long as the townsfolk can remember. A precarious relationship at the best of times, things quickly turn sour when a peddler turns up dead, prompting a pitched battle between fruit vendors and their urban clients.

In the uneasy peace that follows, a forlorn, elderly mother looks to sail their family's livelihood home. But after the pandemonium, no one is sure where her dead son’s barge ended up. How much help can she expect from a town still reeling from rioting and mass arrests?

Cruelty and kindness are interwoven in award-winning writer Su Tong’s new collection of short stories, written in a characteristically surreal mode that is both nightmarish and lyrical, reminiscent of a bad dream yet also joyful and hopeful.

作者简介

苏童在根据其著作《妻妾成群》改编的电影《大红灯笼高高挂》获得 1993 年英国电影学院奖非英语电影奖后，获得了国际赞誉。他是 2015 年茅盾文学奖的联合获奖者，他的早期小说《救赎之舟》于 2009 年获得曼氏亚洲文学奖。

霍妮·沃森是一位科幻小说作家和翻译家，现居内华达州拉斯维加斯。她是一名小说和非小说类作品的普通话英译者，拥有伦敦大学学院和北京大学的学位。她的处女作《观鸟课》于 2023 年 8 月由 Angry Robot 出版社出版。

Su Tong rose to international acclaim after Raise the Red Lantern, a film adaptation of his book Wives and Concubines, won the 1993 BAFTA for best non-English language film. He was joint winner of the 2015 Mao Dun Literature Prize, and his earlier novel The Boat to Redemption won the Man Asia Literature Prize in 2009.

Honey Watson is a science fiction writer and translator living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a translator of both fiction and non-fiction from Mandarin into English, holding degrees from University College London and Peking University, Beijing. Her debut novel, Lessons in Birdwatching, was released by Angry Robot books in August 2023.