出版社: Riverhead Books
副标题: A Novel
出版年: 2018-2-6
页数: 224
定价: USD 17.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780735219441
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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.
While o...
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.
While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
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Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’...
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Believer. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.
Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. In spring, 2019, she will be visiting writer at Syracuse University. Sigrid has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and of several other writers’ conferences across the country. She lives in New York City.
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从一只主人离世的狗身上,她看到了女性的悲伤
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文/ 管舒宁 1 20世纪80年代,在加利福尼亚州,很多柬埔寨裔女性因为同样的病症去看医生:她们看不见。这些女人都是战争难民。在逃离自己的家园之前,她们中很多遭到强奸、虐待或其他残暴对待。她们眼睁睁地看着亲人在自己面前遭到杀害。一名女子说,一些士兵带走了她丈夫和三个... (展开)
Respect、Worship、Reverence

与宠物相处中的生活哲学


烟雾缭绕里的生活真相
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“打败空白页!” 正好穿插着开始读普鲁斯特,安德烈·莫罗亚的序里写道“阿兰曾经指出,小说从本质上应是从诗到散文,从表象到一种实用的,仿佛是手工产品的现实的过渡。”融汇了小说、诗的语调和散文节制的抒情,甚至有一幕幕的戏剧感,这不是一个简单的“人与狗”的故事,也... (展开)> 更多书评 9篇
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0 有用 lieerli 2019-12-23 10:25:26
很棒 对友人的追思和与宠物的相处的叙述中 更多的是一本对各种现象的评论杂集 不尖刻但很有洞见 心理治疗 作家与写作 宠物的意义等等。敢于以碎片章节的形式来呈现一本小说很厉害。后段突然出现的那段第三人称描述简直神来之笔 虚构中更添虚实猜测。果然值得图书奖。
0 有用 42 2022-02-15 11:08:53
看的过程很少有单纯的阅读的愉悦;好几次控制不住想贴个三星的手。到4分之3的时候,因为感受到她众多问题中的其中一个——当代世界如何可能谈论写作的严肃,或者严肃地谈论/实践文学,才开始意识到任何一本真诚处理这样问题的写作,观感不可能是“愉悦的”。关键是,Nunez如何让她的真诚的讨论发生的呢?还没看完但是觉得她有她的路径,有够disturbing,有够复杂。喜不喜欢还不好说,功力是强大的。//很多处都... 看的过程很少有单纯的阅读的愉悦;好几次控制不住想贴个三星的手。到4分之3的时候,因为感受到她众多问题中的其中一个——当代世界如何可能谈论写作的严肃,或者严肃地谈论/实践文学,才开始意识到任何一本真诚处理这样问题的写作,观感不可能是“愉悦的”。关键是,Nunez如何让她的真诚的讨论发生的呢?还没看完但是觉得她有她的路径,有够disturbing,有够复杂。喜不喜欢还不好说,功力是强大的。//很多处都看不下去了,但最后还是得五星 (展开)
0 有用 Gabrielle_lu 2021-01-24 10:50:24
Nothing has changed. It’s still very simple. I miss him. I miss him every day. I miss him very much.
0 有用 倚山 2024-12-30 02:06:37 美国
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2 有用 KnowNothing 2019-01-15 22:14:41
18年National Book Award获奖作品。A sincere narrative of death, of suicide, of writing as a career, of dog as a companion. All remind me of Yiyun Li's Dear Friend. Sensitive, heartbreaking and longlasting. T... 18年National Book Award获奖作品。A sincere narrative of death, of suicide, of writing as a career, of dog as a companion. All remind me of Yiyun Li's Dear Friend. Sensitive, heartbreaking and longlasting. The narrative style is similar to Chemistry by Weike Wang, a combination of random story-telling, casual addressing and muttering. (展开)