THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS
Book ID/图书代码： 12844015B79843
English Summary/英文概要： The Making of Zombie Wars is about an aspiring screenplay writer, full of script ideas but unable to follow through with any of them, whose life changes when he becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband. Sardonic, tender, very cheeky The Making of Zombie Wars will bring Hemon’s writing to a whole new readership.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《僵尸大战》讲述的是一位满怀抱负的剧作家，脑子里充满了脚本想法，但却无力付诸实践。后来，他遇到了一位波斯尼亚妇女以及她嫉妒心强烈的丈夫，从此他的人生发生了转变。本书文风大胆，充满了讥讽的语气，但又不失细腻，将为作者开辟新的读者群。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：《出版人周刊》
Hemon的这部小说中体现了斯宾诺莎哲学与神经喜剧的碰撞。小说主人公Joshua是一名ESL教师，同时也是一位满怀抱负的剧作家，他努力创作一本关于僵尸启示录的脚本，但在短短几天内，他原本波澜不惊的人生发生了巨大的变化。Joshua发现他的房东（一个名叫Stagger的退伍军人）嘲笑他穿的美国国旗的内衣，于是他和女朋友Kimmy一起搬了进来，Kimmy表示出愿意与Joshua进一步发展关系的意愿，但Joshua实现第一次男女关系的机会很快就因为他与自己的学生（一个名叫Ana的年龄较大的女性）之间的关系而破灭了。Ana的丈夫（一个名叫Esko的更加麻烦的退伍军人）谋杀了Kimmy的猫，以此报复。Joshua渐渐无法控制虚构与现实之间的界限。尽管小说包含一些即兴的荒诞之处，但作者Hemon的严谨还是随处可见。比如，情节中有一处涉及到Joshua的父亲被诊断出患有癌症，迫使主人公思考自己的命运。而主人公Joshua复杂的情感为整部小说增添了大胆、艺术的色彩。
Publishers Weekly
Spinozan philosophy meets screwball comedy in this eccentric, subtly experimental novel by Hemon (The Book of My Lives). Thirtysomething Chicagoan Josh Levin is an ESL teacher and aspiring screenwriter hard at work on a script about a zombie apocalypse. But over the course of a few days, his life takes on twists and turns that far exceed, in sheer weirdness, those of any dystopian screenplay. After Joshua discovers his landlord, a post-traumatic-stressed Desert Storm vet named Stagger, sniffing his American-flag underwear, Josh moves in with his girlfriend, Kimmy, who expresses a wish to take their romance to “a new level.” But Joshua’s chance to form his first real adult relationship is quickly spoiled when he embarks on an affair with one of his students, an older woman named Ana. When Ana’s husband—another, possibly more disturbed war vet named Esko—exacts revenge by murdering Kimmy’s cat, Joshua begins to lose his grasp on the line between fiction and reality. While the novel has some of the improvisational wackiness of a stoner flick, Hemon’s more serious concerns are ever present. A story line involving Josh’s father’s cancer diagnosis forces our hero to consider his own mortality. And Joshua’s complicated feelings about narrative—parceled out in the form Spinoza quotations and screenplay excerpts—give the story the feel of a bold, searching künstlerroman. (May)
About the Author/作者介绍： Aleksandar Hemon著有《撕裂记忆体》，该书入围“2008全国图书大奖”和“国家书评奖”，另外，还著有三部短篇小说，其中包括《爱情与障碍》。他曾荣获“2003古根海姆奖”，现居芝加哥。Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold:
Bosnia - Knjizara Buybook
Germany - Albrecht Knaus Verlag
Italy - Giulio Einaudi Editore SpA
Portuguese/Brazil only - Editora Rocco Ltda.
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