THE NIX

Book ID/图书代码： 02330015B78527

English Summary/英文概要： My debut novel THE NIX will be published next year by Knopf. The story follows one family’s experience over generations and geographies, and through cultural moments such as World War II Norway, the Chicago Riots of 1968, the Gulf War, Occupy Wall Street, and the virtual environments of the massively multi-player online gaming world of Elfquest.

My short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Fugue, The Gettysburg Review, and many other journals. I was the winner of the annual Short Story Prize from the journal Fiction for my story “The Bottle.” Last year, The Iowa Review nominated my story “SuperAngel” for a Pushcart Prize. I was also a finalist for the Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 首次预言“特朗普式”领袖的执政与荒谬，从反越战到占领华尔街，理想主义者的幻灭与重塑

我们爱得最深的东西伤我们最深。

美国文坛新星的天才处女作丨《图书馆杂志》十大好书丨《纽约时报书评》年度好书

同名改编迷你剧2019年上映，《星球大战》导演艾布拉姆斯执导，梅丽尔·斯特里普主演。

失踪多年的母亲突然以犯罪嫌疑人的身份重新出现，灵思枯竭、沉迷网游的大学助教萨缪尔决定以母亲为原型写一部小说，以履行十年前签订的新书合约，他决心在公众面前塑造一个最卑劣的形象，以报复她在自己儿时的抛弃行为。但在寻访的过程中，他逐渐发现了一个完全不同于自己认知中的母亲，也开始反思婴儿潮一代的失败和被抛弃的理想主义。最终母子二人实现了和解，萨缪尔也完成了这本十个部分、七百余页的巨著。

从1968年的反越战游行到2011年的占领华尔街，从20世纪40年代的挪威小镇到2003年的伊拉克战场，从古老而神秘的家宅精灵到后隐私时代的广告文明，从童年阴影到中年危机，从亲子关系到政治闹剧，从精神疾病到经济衰退……万花筒般丰富多彩的元素都被巧妙而妥帖地整合为统一的叙事整体。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况：《水妖》是一部幽灵与政治的母子心理剧，也是一部愤怒与伪善的美国悲喜剧……内森·希尔无疑是一位大师。——约翰·欧文

像迈克尔·夏邦和乔纳森·弗兰岑最好的作品一样杰出。——《人物》

内森·希尔是一个敏锐的社会观察家，对当代生活的种种荒谬极度警觉。——《华盛顿邮报》

《水妖》兼具娱乐性和智性，作者似乎无法写出平淡的句子，也编不出无聊的故事。——《纽约时报书评》

“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving

“A fantastic novel about love, betrayal, politics and pop culture—as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen.” —People

“It broke my heart, this book. Time after time. It made me laugh just as often. I loved it on the first page as powerfully as I did on the last.” —Jason Sheehan, NPR.org

“Funny, endlessly inventive. . . . [a] wild tragicomic tangle of [Hill’s] imagination.” —Entertainment Weekly (A-)

“Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull of just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story. . . . [A] supersize and audacious novel of American misadventure.” —Teddy Wayne, The New York Times Book Review

“Irresistible. . . . A major new comic novelist . . . . Hill is a sharp social observer, hyper-alert to the absurdities of modern life. . . . his enormous book arrives as one of the stars of the fall season. . . . readers will find this novel. And they’ll be dazzled.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“Hill is an uncommonly profound observer, illuminating much about the relationships between parents and children. . . . Nathan Hill is an important new writer, able to variously make readers laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale.” —Eliot Schrefer, USA Today (4/4 Stars)

"[A] great sprawling feast of a first novel. . . . Hill writes with an astonishingly sure hand for a young author. . . . let’s just call him the real thing." —Dan Cryer, Newsday

About the Author/作者介绍： 内森·希尔（Nathan Hill），出生于美国爱荷华，现居佛罗里达，曾任媒体记者，目前为圣托马斯大学教授。短篇小说作品散见于《爱荷华评论》《葛底斯堡评论》等，非虚构作品多发表在《连线》《纽约时报书评》等杂志。《水妖》是他的第一部长篇小说。

I’m a native Iowan, but I grew up all over the Midwest: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. After college, I spent a good amount of time in New England, New York City, and South Florida. But now I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, and spend my summers in Chicago.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Picador (UK), De Bezige Bij (Holland), Brombergs (Sweden), Piper (Germany), Lindhardt & Ringhof (Denmark), Editions Gallimard (France), Rizzoli (Italy), Kinneret (Israel), Salamandra (world Spanish), Salamandra (Catalan), youngdotcom (Korea), Libri (Hungary), Gummerus (Finland), Gyldendal Norsk (Norway), Znak (Poland), Beijing Imaginist Time Culture Co. (Mainland China), Intrinseca (Brazil), Alexandria (Greece), Corpus (Russia), Hayakawa (Japan), Presenca (Portugal), Alma Littera (Lithuania), Argo (Czech Republic), Yuan-Liou (Taiwan), Hermes (Bulgaria), Hep Kitap (Turkey), Laguna (Serbia), RAO (Romania), Zhorzh (Ukraine)

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