书籍介绍
A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world.
These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords.
They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales.
At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love—and what comes after.
The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.
AI导读
核心看点
- 阿特伍德晚年短篇集，融合回忆录与奇幻叙事。
- 探讨衰老、丧亲之痛及女性友谊的复杂羁绊。
- 包含蜗牛转世、外星童话等脑洞大开的奇思妙想。
适合谁读
- 玛格丽特·阿特伍德的忠实读者及文学爱好者。
- 对女性主义、老年生活及记忆主题感兴趣的读者。
- 喜欢短篇故事、黑色幽默及超现实主义风格的读者。
读前提醒
- 全书分三部分，建议耐心阅读，后半部渐入佳境。
- 部分故事带有自传色彩，可结合作者生平理解。
- 接受碎片化叙事，享受不同故事间的风格跳跃。
读者共识
- 文字锋利如化石切片，深刻揭示人性与荒诞。
- 评价两极，有人爱其奇思，有人觉平淡无共鸣。
- 展现了作家晚期对生命、死亡与记忆的深邃思考。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Would I have been happier if I'd never been a respected public figure, if I'd followed the standard path for a woman then--got married, had children? I can't answer that, except to say that once a single choice is made it excludes the alternatives. I would probably not have ended up as a butchers' w"
- "This was very alarming, so Patient Griselda said yes, and the Duke scooped her up onto his...I'm sorry, we don't have a word for that, so the translation device is of no help. Onto his snack. Why are you all laughing? What do you think snacks do before they become snacks?"
- "No. Because it's not a tunnel. There isn't any other end. Time has ceased to be linear, with life events and memories in a chronological row, like beads on a string. It's the strangest feeling, or experience, or rearrangement. I'm not sure I can explain it to you. And it would alarm you unduly if I "
- "She was bound to injure herself sooner or later; it’s part of the grieving process."
- "No man in the house described our situation. Of course, everyone has a father—or, as they would say nowadays, a sperm provider, fatherhood in the old sense of paternity having fallen into disrepute—and I had one too, though at that date I wasn't sure this father was still what you'd call "alive." Wh"
- "She sighed. "You were such a sensitive child. So easily wounded. So I told you those things. I didn't want you to feel defenceless in the face of life. Life can be harsh. I wanted you to feel protected, and to know that there was a greater power watching over you. That the Universe was taking a pers"
- "I didn't even have time to retract my stalked eyes and withdraw into my protective carapace. My miniature snail soul, a translucent spiral of softly phosphorescent light, shot into the air—the spirit air, you must understand, where the rules are some—what different—and made its way through the iride"
- "“我猜你应该再也不愿意理我了。”奇拉说。她低头看着桌子，拨弄着茶匙。 但琳恩怎么可能气到那种程度呢？气到再也不理奇拉？她的年纪已经大到不适合上演断交和摔门而去的戏码，她已经没有力量去产生高傲的愤怒。年轻人可能会说，你对我来说已经死了。但在她看来，奇拉离死还远着呢。奇拉其实是她的一部分。巨大的塑料手表、白色的长筒靴、离谱的故事。那些廉价的白葡萄酒、平庸的诗人、痴情的追求者。她俩就像两只小猫一样翻来滚去，为自身拥有实体而开心，并相信她们是自由自在的。她们制造并感受痛苦，在时间的控制之外飘浮，哪怕只有那么一小会儿。"
作者简介
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade, and in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
用户评论
Imp and Pat
这本小说像是一列时空穿梭列车，车头是作为一对老年夫妻的整体在回忆两个人多年来的趣事和朋友；中间是阿特伍德熟练的灵怪叙事，从以为妈妈是女巫的女儿，到外星章鱼的H版童话，再到蜗牛投胎的《重启人生》之“当人真没劲”版；车尾又回到人世间的老年，只是这次，只剩下一个老太太了。最后一篇同名小说聚焦了女主Nell在老伴去世后，她和亲妹妹在一栋乡间小屋的生活片段，虽然丧亲的悲伤仍在，但老年女性的洒脱和机敏也像以往一样动人。比如她们家在对待伤痛的习惯是不会直接说出来，而是问家人“还有曲奇么？”当Nell最终将这句话说出口，妹妹只是淡淡地回复了一句：“没了，就剩巧克力了。”但她知道姐姐刚才经历了一场心碎。
没有特别出彩的，还是更喜欢Book 2里面有趣的架空世界。还有我要吐槽一下虽然Atwood本人读了部分的有声书但是她读的实在太无聊了😂😂😂就感觉她非常不情愿地在读，声音很低沉也很没起伏...最后，Tig这个名字somehow很踩我雷点，加上Tig这个角色我也不太喜欢，就很烦Tig和Nell共同出现的Book1。
I am sorry, we don’t have a word for that.
很有趣的一本short stories collection. Nell & Tig 系列里最喜欢的是first aid, 我也想有个在moose sexually attracted to Volkswagen Beetle时节仍然一起胆战心惊地去camping的人啊! 第二部分有几个很quirky的故事，最喜欢的是Impatient Griselda- 很cute的给quarantined地球人讲血腥爱情（？）故事的外星人;Metempsychosis - 庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶; Freeforall - 和title背道而驰的年代。Atwood上了年纪，风格也有了转变，对于lifestyle of senior people以及我们共同的那个结局的观察和思考充满了整本书。也挺好的～
中间的小故事写得真有趣哈哈
三星半。Atwood向我们展示了一位优秀作家应该具备的广袤的想象力和多变的写作风格。
一个短篇集，Part II比较有意思，一些短篇sci-fi/fantasy以及故事重述，Impatient Griselda我可太喜欢了！讲故事的调调敏锐又灵巧，另外The Dead Interview印象也很深，阿特伍德对话奥威尔，睿智但又有点quirky的对话，Metempsychosis是蜗牛意外变成人之后的“做人没意思”，除此之外的Part I和Part III是一系列有关一对老夫妇Nell & Tig的故事，Part I里的感觉整体比较琐碎，但是Part III里Nell dealing with grief的部分却很动人，整本书总体感觉比较平，但是时不时有一些sparkle加上阿特伍德沉稳的prose让我觉得还是值得的，
她的這本書感覺就是很遠的故事集，但是沒有太多的共鳴，要麽就是挺好看的。但是沒有太多的出彩篇幅。
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