书籍介绍
这不是一本关于天才少女逆袭的励志小说,而是一场关于“如何让自己显得真实”的危险实验。两个在战后法国乡野长大的女孩,一个负责想象,一个负责执行,她们用一把折叠刀、一个虚构的男孩Jacques,一点点凿开彼此也凿开世界的边界。李翊云写她们如何把感情、能力、未来都拿出来“证明是真的”,却也让读者在 midway 感到不适——人物没有扎实实感,生活是假的,情感却逼着你相信。它常被拿来和《我的天才女友》对照,但真正的分野在最后:她们杀不了对方,也救不了对方。这本书适合愿意忍受中间段落寡淡、只为在结尾那剂“蛇毒发作”里被当头一棒的人;它不提供爽文,只留下一句盘旋不去的追问:人究竟要靠什么,才能确认自己真的活着?
作者简介
Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has also appeared in A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.