Tales of Accidental Genius: Stories读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 272页 | 2020 | Harper Perennial |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-20 … | 2021-03-01 … | 81 |
A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy—his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
“She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a definition.”
In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in Winter, for which he won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award), bestselling author Simon Van Booy offers a collection of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassion. Through characters including an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician from New Jersey, and a Beijing street vendor who becomes an overnight billionaire, Tales of Accidental Genius contemplates individuals from different cultures, races—rich and poor, young and old—and reveals how faith and yearning for connection helps us all transcend darkness of fear and misfortune.
作者简介西蒙•范•布伊1975年生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大，大学时迷上橄榄球，成为美国肯塔基州一所大学的橄榄球队员。在那儿，经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生美国诗人的作品，而另一个英语教授则鼓励他写诗和创作短篇小说。之后，他回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学位。曾旅居巴黎和雅典。
西蒙•范•布伊已出版两部短篇小说集《因为。爱》（The Secret Lives of People in Love）和《爱，始于冬季》，并主编一套哲学读物，包括《为什么我们战斗》（Why We Fight）、《为什么我们需要爱》（Why We Need Love）、《为什么我们的决定不重要》（Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter）。
西蒙•范•布伊目前住在纽约。他也是《纽约时报》、《纽约邮报》、英国《每日电讯报》、《泰晤士报》的撰稿人。其...
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