GOOD ON PAPER

Book ID/图书代码： 08885015B81954

English Summary/英文概要： The highly anticipated second novel from a writer Emily St. John Mandel calls “sharp, witty, and immensely entertaining”

Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t quite turned out at planned. Shira is a permanent temp with a few short stories published in minor literary magazines and a PhD on Dante’s Vita Nuova that she abandoned halfway.

Her life has some happy certainties, though: she lives with her friend Ahmad, and her daughter, Andi, on the Upper West Side. They’re an unconventional family, but a real one, with Friday night dinner rituals, private jokes, and the shared joys and strains of any other family.

So when she gets the call from Romei, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize and the irascible idol of grad students everywhere, and he tells her he wants her to translate his new book, Shira is happy . . . but stunned. Suddenly, Shira sees a new beckoning: academic glory, a career as a literary translator, and even love (with a part-time rabbi and owner of the neighborhood indie bookstore). That is, until Romei starts sending her pages of the manuscript and she realizes that something odd is going on: his book may in fact be untranslatable.

A deft, funny, and big-hearted novel about second chances, Good on Paper is a grand novel of family, friendship, and possibility.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是被Emliy St. John Mandel评论为“尖锐，机智，乐趣无穷”的作者令人翘首企盼的第二部小说。

人生可以重来吗？因为Shira Greene并不像她所预期的那样。她只在小型杂志上发表过几篇短篇小说，攻读博士学位时研究但丁的《新生》却中途放弃。

当然她的生活也有一些确信的幸福：她和朋友Ahmad和她的女儿Adni住在一起，共同分享生活的幸福点滴。

当她接到上一年诺贝尔奖获得者，众学生的偶像Romei致电请她翻译自己的新作品时，她又惊又喜……Shira感觉顺便就看到了各种未来的希望：学术荣誉、成为专业文学翻译，甚至爱情。直到Romei发给她几页手稿之后，她才发现了各种蹊跷——他的书可能无法翻译。

这是一部有关第二次机会的小说，是一部关于家庭、友情、可能性的伟大作品。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“《纸上高手》新颖、情感充沛，充分体现了Cantor对人性和语言的热爱。读来令人愉快。”——A.L. Kennedy，《Day》的作者

对作者处女作《不可能的剧情（A Highly Unlikely Scenario）》的评论：

“一部反乌托邦的讽刺作品；一个关于讲故事，关于信任和倾听的故事。——《不可能的剧情》最终成为我们这个奇怪世界的一段历史。”——《纽约时报》书评

’“Good on Paper is full of invention and emotional generosity. It’s also packed with Cantor’s love of humanity and language. It’s a delightful read." —A.L. Kennedy, author of Day

Praise for A Highly Unlikely Scenario by Rachel Cantor

“A dystopian satire; a story about -storytelling, believing and listening — ’A Highly Unlikely Scenario’ is ultimately a history of our own strange world.” —New York Times Book Review

“[A] dizzying fabulist debut.” —Washington Post

An io9 pick for the Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2014

“[Cantor’s] imagination is exhilarating — A Highly Unlikely Scenario will appeal to fans of sci-fi and people who just like to laugh.” —Cosmopolitan, 10 Books by Women You Have to Read This Spring

“Cantor’s first novel never takes an obvious turn when a stranger one might do and the result is a plot that bounces, soap-bubble like, above a world that is equal parts absurdity and whimsy…the whole thing has the air of a fable translated from a very foreign language.” —io9

“Ultimately, more than incantations and codes, it’s family Cantor cares about. A Highly Unlikely Scenario is about just that: Familial wisdom and love lost and found and shared anew, finally, conquering all.” —Daily Beast

“A treat for those who like zippy sci-fi paced like the stories of Kurt Vonnegut.” —Time Out New York

“With publication of A Highly Unlikely Scenario, Rachel Cantor joins the ranks of authors who are able to turn philosophical concepts into whiz-bang plots, and make them funny as well. Throw in some family dysfunction, time travel, a librarian ingénue, and the possible destruction of the world, and you’ve got an adventure story replete with nerdy delights.” —Tor

“The book’s plot, which concerns a future where fast food corporations run the world, is deliciously weird enough to work in its own warped way, walking the line between straight fantasy and fiction.” —Flavorwire

About the Author/作者介绍： RACHEL CANTOR 在罗马和康涅狄格州长大。是广受赞誉的小说《不可能的剧情》的作者，多部短篇小说曾在《巴黎评论》《一个故事》《第九封信》等多本杂志上发表。现在居住在布鲁克林。

RACHEL CANTOR was raised in Rome and Connecticut. She is the author of the acclaimed novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, and her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and elsewhere, and has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Wesleyan writing conferences. She lives in Brooklyn.

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