书籍介绍
拉希里的笔触极轻,轻到几乎让人误以为这只是一部移民家庭的日常流水账。可正是这种轻描淡写,把二代移民心中那道无法言说的裂缝照得真切:父亲为女儿住进来而暗生的不悦,恋人之间那句'这下我们都知道那是什么感觉了'之后的彻底无望,以及'我们太小心了,而你什么也没有留下'里被主动取消的蜜月与人生。她写的是加尔各答、伦敦与波士顿之间反复折返的游子,写的却是'人性如马铃薯,若被一代代反复移植于同一块土地,终将无法生长'这般更普遍的处境。这不是'北京人在纽约'式的文化冲突奇观,而是隔阂本身——那种'lost in translation'、被理解却仍不被理解的悲伤。适合愿意慢下来、在琐碎细节里辨认自己某段隐秘失落的人。
作者简介
Jhumpa Lahiri is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by many publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.