A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common nee...
A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.
In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
What Are You Going Through: A Novel的创作者
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Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, and the National Book Award-winning The Friend, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellow...
Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, and the National Book Award-winning The Friend, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Nunez lives in New York City.
Each time she saw him, though, she
was struck by the same thought. Here he was, in his eighties at least. No memory, no legs, no wind—yet how the mere sight of a bit of female flesh could knock him off his perch. Surely it had been a while since he'd been capable of fucking. But still. He wanted. He lusted. Even at the risk of falling and breaking a hip—the catastrophe that spells the end for so many old folks—he just had to cop a feel. The wildness inhis rheumy eyes, the panting, the crude guttural noises—it was as if there among those ancient sunstruck green hills she had been confronted not by a fellow human being but by some uncontrollable force. (查看原文)
I finished this book after working in Blake away for 4h shift, walking along the beach from Brighton. At some point I feel like my heart beats so fast, there’s something in my chest. Didn’t really get...I finished this book after working in Blake away for 4h shift, walking along the beach from Brighton. At some point I feel like my heart beats so fast, there’s something in my chest. Didn’t really get the book, but Kafka Camus the author mentioned which I like. I feel I grown up a bit in these two weeks after all the things happening with Fahad (展开)
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上海译文出版社2023版
0 有用 Guesswhat 2021-02-16 18:08:36
喜马拉雅上有audible
0 有用 Terri 2025-03-16 06:23:27 北京
写死亡，或者准备死亡。 非常不像小说，不时跳开故事线写起别的，文学、艺术、作家、观点。 各种元素揉杂。
0 有用 米粥粥 2021-10-26 15:31:44
I finished this book after working in Blake away for 4h shift, walking along the beach from Brighton. At some point I feel like my heart beats so fast, there’s something in my chest. Didn’t really get... I finished this book after working in Blake away for 4h shift, walking along the beach from Brighton. At some point I feel like my heart beats so fast, there’s something in my chest. Didn’t really get the book, but Kafka Camus the author mentioned which I like. I feel I grown up a bit in these two weeks after all the things happening with Fahad (展开)
0 有用 Sylvia Orange 2025-04-22 08:43:04 加拿大
没想到书的结尾反倒有些戛然而止 电影还是艺术和理想化了 很喜欢作者的文笔，读起来轻松又容易有代入感 阿莫多瓦你欠我一个Tilda和Julianne的吻
0 有用 OO-san 2020-11-16 03:49:19
Reminds me of the narrator from Cat's Eye, centered around a female friendship that is brighter and kinder.