These eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
珍妮弗•伊根(Jennifer Egan)
出生于美国芝加哥，在旧金山长大，先后就读于宾夕法尼亚大学和剑桥大学圣约翰学院。著有长篇小说《看不见的马戏团》（The Invisible Circus）、《望着我》(Look at Me）、《塔楼》(The Keep)；短篇小说集《翡翠城》(Emerald City and Other Stories)。她经常在《纽约客》(The New Yorker)、《哈泼斯》(Harpers) 、《格兰塔》（Granta）、《麦克斯韦尼斯》(McSweeney's)以及《犁铧》(Ploughshares)等媒体发表短篇小说，也为《纽约时报杂志》(New York Times Magazine)撰写新闻稿。