本书版权已经出售给了美国的Riverhead和英国的Fitzcarraldo，即将在10月出版。
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/fitzcarraldo-signs-short-story-collection
这是一部敏感、美好、充满紧张感的短篇小说合集，就像是没有标明日期的日记，聚焦于单身女性叙述者的个人生活。
Kevin Barry认为《池塘》是一部“我们多年来所遇到的非常精彩的处女作——这位真实的作者为读者带来了真材实料” 。
Deborah Levy认为Claire-Louise Bennett是一位“有待挖掘和重视的重要作家”。
爱尔兰的各种书评也对本书做出了高度的评价。
“我所听到的对《池塘》的赞誉声比近年来任何一部处女作都要多。因此在读之前，我对它的期望值非常高，读完后发现，它没有让我失望。故事机智、幽默，有新意、有煽动性。在读的过程中，总是会忍不住想到有位作家正开始崭露头角。”——Eimear McBride，《A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing》的作者
Melanie Jackson has now sold the US rights for us in an excellent deal to Becky Saletan at Riverhead and my colleague Peter Straus, after receiving three UK offers, closed a deal with Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo editions in the UK, who will publish in October.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/fitzcarraldo-signs-short-story-collection
This is a wonderfully sensitive and intense work of short fiction, set out almost like undated diary entries, the stories focus on the personal life of the single, female narrator.
Kevin Barry has called POND “as brilliant a debut and distinct a voice as we’ve heard in years – this is a real writer with the real goods” and Deborah Levy has called Claire-Louise Bennett “a major writer to be discovered and treasured” and the Irish reviews are fantastic.
Here is an excellent review quote just in:
“I’d heard more good whispers about POND by Claire-Louise Bennett than almost any other debut this year so, by the time I read it, expectations were high and – as it turned out – not disappointed. These stories are intelligent and funny , innovative and provocative, and it’s impossible to read them without thinking that here is a writer who has only just begun to show what she can do”
Eimear McBride , author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing , Guardian (Summer books 11 July 2015)
How much should you let in, and how much should you give away? Feverish and forthright, POND is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but restless with desire, the woman’s relationship with her surroundings becomes boundless and increasingly bewildering. Claire-Louise Bennett’s startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.
“Bennett’s form-twisting debut collection, Pond, is daring, intense and exhilarating”. The Irish Times
Claire-Louise Bennett’s short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times and The White Review amongst others. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013.