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Disappearing Earth《消失的土地》

By Julia Phillips 茱莉亞·菲利普斯著

       In the first chapter of this assured debut novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town perched on the edge of the remote, brooding Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the various women who have been affected by their disappearance. Each richly textured tale pushes the narrative forward another month and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been shattered — personally, culturally and emotionally — by the crime.

       在這本自信的處女作小說第一章中，兩個(gè)年輕的女孩消失了，給這個(gè)坐落在遙遠(yuǎn)且靜謐的堪察加半島邊緣的小鎮(zhèn)帶來了巨大沖擊。接下來的小說由一系列相互交疊的小故事組成，講述了她們的失蹤給許多女人造成的影響。每一個(gè)情節(jié)豐富的故事都將敘事向前推進(jìn)一個(gè)月，揭示了堪察加的女人們?nèi)绾卧趥€(gè)人、文化和情感層面受到這起犯罪行為的打擊。

The Topeka School《托皮卡學(xué)校》

By Ben Lerner本·勒納著

       Lerner’s exhilarating third novel, after “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04,” rocks an emphatically American amplitude. Adam Gordon returns as the protagonist, but this time as a high school debate star, and mostly in the third person. Equal portions of the book are given over to the voices of his psychologist parents, and to a former classmate whose cognitive deficits are the inverse of Adam’s gifts. The earlier novels’ questions about art and authenticity persist; but Adam’s faithlessness is now stretched into a symptom of a national crisis of belief. Lerner’s own arsenal has always included a composer’s feel for orchestration, a ventriloquist’s vocal range and a fine ethnographic attunement.

       這是勒納令人振奮的第三部小說。繼《離開阿托查車站》和《10:04》之后，本書展現(xiàn)了一種極為美國(guó)式的寬廣。亞當(dāng)·戈登再度成為主人公，但這次是作為高中辯論明星，而且主要是以第三人稱出現(xiàn)。他的心理學(xué)家父母，以及一個(gè)有認(rèn)知缺陷、和亞當(dāng)?shù)奶熨x形成鮮明對(duì)比的前同學(xué)，得到了同等的篇幅。勒納早期小說對(duì)藝術(shù)和真?zhèn)蔚馁|(zhì)疑依然存在；但是亞當(dāng)?shù)男叛鋈笔缃褚呀?jīng)擴(kuò)展成一個(gè)國(guó)家信仰危機(jī)的癥狀。一名作曲家對(duì)管弦樂編曲的感覺，一個(gè)腹語(yǔ)表演者的音域，以及一種細(xì)膩的民族和諧，一直都是勒納所倚仗的。

Exhalation《呼吸》

By Ted Chiang特德·姜著

       Many of the nine deeply beautiful stories in this collection explore the material consequences of time travel. Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you without an ounce of condescension. Each thoughtful, elegantly crafted story poses a philosophical question; Chiang curates all nine into a conversation that comes full circle, after having traversed remarkable terrain.

       這本合集收錄了九個(gè)美麗動(dòng)人的短篇小說，其中好幾篇都探討了時(shí)間旅行的重大后果。閱讀它們就像和一位朋友坐在一起吃飯，席間他向你解釋科學(xué)理論，毫無居高臨下之態(tài)。每一個(gè)深思熟慮、構(gòu)思優(yōu)雅的故事都提出了一個(gè)哲學(xué)問題；在經(jīng)歷了一段非凡的旅程后，特德·姜將這9則故事構(gòu)織成了一場(chǎng)圓融的談話。

Lost Children Archive《失蹤兒童檔案》

By Valeria Luiselli瓦萊麗婭·魯塞利著

       The Mexican author’s third novel — her first to be written in English — unfolds against a backdrop of crisis: of children crossing borders, facing death, being detained, being deported unaccompanied by their guardians. The novel centers on a couple and their two children (all unnamed), who are taking a road trip from New York City to the Mexican border; the couple’s marriage is on the brink of collapse as they pursue independent ethnographic research projects and the woman tries to help a Mexican immigrant find her daughters, who’ve gone missing in their attempt to cross the border behind her. The brilliance of Luiselli’s writing stirs rage and pity, but what might one do after reading such a novel? Acutely sensitive to these misgivings, Luiselli has delivered a madly allusive, self-reflexive, experimental book, one that is as much about storytellers and storytelling as it is about lost children.

       這位墨西哥作家的第三部小說——也是她的第一部英文小說——以一場(chǎng)危機(jī)為背景展開：孩子們穿越邊境，面臨死亡，被拘禁，在沒有監(jiān)護(hù)人陪伴的情況下被驅(qū)逐出境。小說以一對(duì)夫婦和他們的兩個(gè)孩子（都沒有名字）為中心，他們正沿著從紐約市到墨西哥邊境的公路旅行；在進(jìn)行獨(dú)立的人種學(xué)研究的同時(shí)，這對(duì)夫婦的婚姻正處于崩潰的邊緣，女人試圖幫助一名墨西哥移民找到她在試圖越過邊境時(shí)失蹤的女兒。魯塞利的寫作才華引起了人們的憤怒和憐憫，但讀了這樣一部小說之后，人們會(huì)怎么做呢？魯塞利對(duì)這些疑慮極為敏感，她帶來了一本充滿暗喻、自我反思與實(shí)驗(yàn)性的書，既是關(guān)于故事講述者，也是關(guān)于失蹤的兒童。

Night Boat to Tangier《開往丹吉爾的夜船》

By Kevin Barry凱文·巴里著

       A desolate ferry terminal on the Spanish coast isn’t a place where you’d expect to encounter sharp-edged lyricism or rueful philosophy, but thanks to the two Irish gangster antiheroes of Barry’s novel, there’s plenty of both on display, along with scabrously amusing tale-telling and much summoning of painful memories. Their lives have become so intertwined that the young woman whose arrival they await can qualify as family for either man. Will she show? How much do they care? Their banter is a shield against the dark, a witty new take on “Waiting for Godot.”

       你不會(huì)想到在西班牙海岸一個(gè)荒涼的渡輪碼頭遭遇銳利的抒情文字或悲嘆的哲學(xué)，但由于巴里的小說中有兩個(gè)愛爾蘭黑幫反英雄人物，兩者都得到了不少展現(xiàn)，與此同時(shí)還講述了粗俗有趣的故事，喚起許多痛苦的回憶。他們的生活已經(jīng)變得如此緊密地交織在一起，以至于他們等待的年輕女子可以成為他們兩人的家人。她會(huì)露面嗎？他們真的很在意嗎？他們的玩笑是抵御黑暗的盾牌，一部《等待戈多》的詼諧新版本。

Say Nothing《什么都不說》

By Patrick Radden Keefe帕特里克·拉登·基夫著

       Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book — as finely paced as a novel — Keefe uses McConville’s murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga.

       1972年，蒙面者闖入38歲的寡婦、10個(gè)孩子的母親珍·麥康維爾在貝爾法斯特的家中，將她拖了出來。在這本精心敘述的書中——步調(diào)精巧猶如小說——基夫以麥康維爾謀殺案為棱鏡，講述了北愛爾蘭動(dòng)亂的歷史。他采訪了沖突雙方的人，把那個(gè)時(shí)代的悲劇性破壞和損耗變成了一個(gè)灼熱的、扣人心弦的傳奇故事。

The Club《俱樂部》

By Leo Damrosch利奧·達(dá)姆羅施

       The English painter Joshua Reynolds just wanted to cheer up his friend Samuel Johnson, who was feeling blue. Who knew that the Friday night gab sessions he proposed they convene at London’s Turk’s Head Tavern would end up attracting virtually all the leading lights of late-18th-century Britain? Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities — the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie — to vivid life, delivering indelible portraits of Johnson and Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, the actor David Garrick, the historian Edward Gibbon and, of course, Johnson’s loyal biographer James Boswell: “a constellation of talent that has rarely if ever been equaled.”

       英國(guó)畫家約書亞·雷諾茲只是想讓他情緒低落的朋友塞繆爾·約翰遜高興起來。誰(shuí)知道他提議的周五晚上在倫敦土耳其人頭酒館舉行的夜聊會(huì)，最終會(huì)吸引18世紀(jì)末英國(guó)幾乎所有的領(lǐng)袖人物？達(dá)姆羅施將《俱樂部》里令人敬畏的個(gè)性——聰明的頭腦、機(jī)智的口水戰(zhàn)、溫柔的友情——帶到生動(dòng)的生活中，呈現(xiàn)出一幅幅不可磨滅的肖像：約翰遜和雷諾茲、埃德蒙·伯克、亞當(dāng)·斯密、演員大衛(wèi)·加里克、歷史學(xué)家愛德華·吉本，當(dāng)然還有約翰遜忠誠(chéng)的傳記作者詹姆斯·鮑斯威爾：“一群很少甚至無人能及的天才”。

No Visible Bruises《無可見挫傷》

By Rachel Louise Snyder雷切爾·路易斯·斯奈德著

       Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder debunks pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.

       斯奈德在書中詳盡報(bào)道了世界衛(wèi)生組織所稱的“流行病式的全球健康問題”。僅在美國(guó)，半數(shù)以上被謀殺的女性是被現(xiàn)任或前任伴侶殺害的；家庭暴力不分階級(jí)、宗教和種族。斯奈德揭露了普遍存在的迷思（限制令是答案，施虐者從不改變），并動(dòng)情地描寫了施暴者和受害者的生活（和死亡）。她沒有給出簡(jiǎn)單的答案，而是提供了豐富的信息，這些信息本身就是一種希望。

Midnight in Chernobyl《切爾諾貝利的午夜》

By Adam Higginbotham亞當(dāng)·希金博特姆著

       Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Replete with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astounding incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.

       希金博特姆對(duì)1986年4月切爾諾貝利核電站爆炸的精彩描述，屬于那種讀來像緊張沖突不斷的驚悚小說的罕見科技圖書。故事充滿生動(dòng)的細(xì)節(jié)和深入刻畫的人物性格，從中可以看到令人震驚的無能，一個(gè)接一個(gè)的錯(cuò)誤，一個(gè)接一個(gè)的誤判，最終導(dǎo)致了不可避免的、改變歷史的災(zāi)難。