Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. ...
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.
作者简介
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Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.
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1 有用 zh_ayi 2020-05-26 14:35:43
我们这一代可能注定要失败，陷入绝望和可怕的混乱。但如果我们的孩子将会继承一个更好的国家，那么，上帝仍然是慷慨的。
0 有用 Mona 2020-02-16 12:31:47
《不对称》 听书
0 有用 冰冷擦 2021-12-28 23:21:19
这是啥玩意儿
0 有用 rachel 2019-01-10 12:13:07
第一部分虽然虎头蛇尾但仍然暖心，怪老头和高冷女的故事真是不分国籍、万年卖点永不变。。。
0 有用 Heidyroyal Tea 2019-01-27 05:52:23
有讲两性关系中权力的imbalance，却没有提供任何新的观点，也不够透彻，三段之前太牵强，当畅销书随便读一读还好。
0 有用 手机用户42889 2023-12-13 00:34:14 美国
“关注远方得到赞赏 但是我哭以巴开火很牵强”
0 有用 Macmania 2022-12-23 13:23:55 美国
这文笔，这深度（特别是第二部，没有亲身经历的情况下能写成这样），这叙事手段！！明年去看看Philip Roth 嘿嘿
0 有用 yoshimi 2022-12-04 22:17:41 上海
瞎读-看不懂-看懂一点儿-有点意思-又看不懂了 第二个故事好歹是连贯的，了解了一下伊拉克人的创伤。。。第一个完全就是片段横跳 看不懂
0 有用 牛仔椰 2022-07-29 10:44:05
给三星因为我实在无法理解这样一段感情。。。大概是我浅薄吧
0 有用 Young_To 2022-02-07 05:32:00
之前看到中文版的呼声太高了 读来真是失望