普通人 英文原版  Sally Rooney 聊天记录作者 萨莉·鲁尼 Normal People

基本信息

Format Paperback | 304 pages

Dimensions 131 x 201 x 17mm | 210g

Publication date 18 Feb 2020

Publisher Hogarth Press

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 1984822187

ISBN13 9781984822185

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

千禧一代的代言人

英国图书奖、科斯塔图书奖有史以来年轻的获奖者

九零后爱尔兰女作家萨莉·鲁尼新作

《普通人》

入围了今年的布克奖长名单

在鲁尼的第二本小说中，她仍然把重点放在人类关系的微小细节上。和《与朋友对话》一样，繁多的细节也不会让读者觉得冗长：角色会逐渐互相吸引，角色之间的难以预料的联系也会吸引到观众。《普通人》将由BBC改编成电视剧，鲁尼自己担任编剧，凭借电影《房间》获得奥斯卡提名的导演兰尼·阿伯拉罕森（Lenny Abrahamson）执导。阿伯拉罕森在都柏林接受了我的电话采访，他说自己“抓住了机会”来担任导演。“她能够用简练的语言捕捉到真实生活中的细节，整本小说充满深度和见解，我为此所吸引。她好像真的和这些奇妙的角色在现实中见过面。她能够在姿势或声音的细节中找到一种方式，去探索角色的内在。”

  《普通人》讲述的是玛丽安和康奈尔的故事，他们小时候在爱尔兰斯莱戈郡基拉尼的同一所学校上学。康奈尔的母亲为玛丽安居住的大房子打扫卫生，玛丽安和她有暴力倾向的哥哥、冷漠的母亲住在一起。上学的时候他们没有说过话。玛丽安是个叛逆的学生，总是穿着奇怪的鞋子，总是和老师顶嘴。而康奈尔是个好学生，非常在乎其他同学对他的看法。康奈尔“害怕在她身边，因为他发现自己总会举止奇怪，说出言不达意的话来”，但同时，他也“经常幻想自己能用什么样的语言去打动她”。

  《普通人》以一个短篇小说《在诊所》（At the Clinic）开头，23岁的康奈尔开车送玛丽安去牙医诊所。“我总是想写20岁刚出头的角色，”鲁尼告诉我，“因为康奈尔和玛丽安以前是同学，这让他们现在的感情有着一种特殊的质感。我决定从开头讲述他们之间的故事，按照事件的顺序进行讲述。”

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES *;NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER *; ';A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships' (People) from the author of sally rooney,';a master of the literary page-turner' (J. Courtney Sullivan).

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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner.

But when the two strike up a conversationawkward but electrifyingsomething life changing begins.

A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together.

And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins tosearch for meaning elsewhere, each must confronthow far they are willing to go to save the other.

Normal Peopleis the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can't.

Praise forNormal People

';[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.'The Washington Post

';Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney's elegant sophomore effort . .

Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance.'The Wall Street Journal

';[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism.

. . .

[She writes] some of the best dialogue I've read.'The New Yorker

作者简介

鲁尼1991年出生在梅奥郡的卡斯尔巴，她说这里是“爱尔兰最有读书氛围的地方”。她的母亲经营着当地的莱能郝艺术中心（Linenhall Arts Centre），她的父亲基尔兰在国家电信公司工作。鲁尼是家里的老二，有一个哥哥和一个妹妹，父母“以社会主义的传统”抚养她长大。她笔下的许多角色会把青少年时期的紧张关系带入成年，但鲁尼自己的经历却并非如此。“小时候，我并不知道如何社交，”她一边回答，一边用手指把玩着绿色扶手椅上的面料，“我不理解社交的意义。”

她在都柏林圣三一学院找到了“生命中最重要的友谊”。在《与朋友对话》的序言中，她专门感谢了两个朋友过去和她进行的对话，她“从中借鉴了很多”。她也感谢了自己的伴侣约翰·普拉斯福卡（John Prasifka），他最近刚刚拿到数学老师资格证，他们在辩论比赛中相识。“那时是我第一次因为概念和政治上的讨论，结识了朋友。”

鲁尼小说中的爱情总有一种紧张感，这种紧张感因此孕育了她的角色。但有时候，这样的感情似乎让角色们难以承受。她觉得这是健康的感情关系吗？ 她思考了一下：“什么是健康的感情呢？这让人际关系听起来像是临床术语，就好像说白细胞数量不对一样。感情中不可能没有痛苦。”

Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, she is the author of Conversations with Friends. In 2019, she was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.

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