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SYMPATHY

Book ID/图书代码: 11701215B85005

English Summary/英文概要: SYMPATHY is darkly funny; explosively intelligent; and as sharp on the soul as it is on the internet and the city, here is a debut for our times.

At twenty three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. There, she intends to work out who she is and what she is supposed to be doing with her life, believing the city (where she was adopted at birth) will direct her footsteps. Blinded by the city lights, Alice becomes obsessed with Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer enrolled at Columbia, whose life story has strange parallels to her own. What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but – after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence. Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions – where do we come from – is answered just by searching online.

In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is wholly unique – a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 《同理心》是一本充满了黑色幽默和睿智的作品,对网络及社会的见解深刻,直触灵魂深处。这是一部为我们这个时代创作的处女作!

Alice Hare23岁的时候离开英国来到纽约,在那里,她想弄清楚自己是谁,应该以何为生,她相信生她养她的城市将会给她指引方向。在城市里灯红酒绿的迷惑下,Alice迷恋上了一名在哥伦比亚入伍的日本作家Mizuko Himura。Mizuko Himura的生活轨迹和Alice惊人地相似。对于Mizuko来说这是一次偶然的邂逅,但对Alice来说绝非如此,毕竟,在这个联通的时代,没有什么是巧合。后来的关系一开始就注定了要失败,因为这段关系在三个家庭的碰撞中暴露出了一系列的谎言和性关系,以及最古老的一个问题——我们从哪里来——这个问题可以通过网络搜索来回答。

小说受到了村上春树、帕特丽夏•海史密斯和伊迪丝•华顿等文学大家的启发,同时又呈现出一种独特的风貌,讲述了一个有关痴迷、双重性和血缘,以及我们在数字时代苦苦挣扎着互相连接的故事。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况:One of Entertainment Weekly’s “16 Debut Novels to Read in 2017”

One of the Observer’s “New Faces of Fiction for 2017”

One of Elle UK’s “Six Top Debut Authors of 2017”

One of i-D/Vice’s “10 Brilliant Emerging Female Authors to Read in 2017”

One of ReadItForward’s “17 Books We’re Excited to Read in 2017”

One of the Lady Magazine’s “Must-reads for 2017”

One of Refinery 29’s “2017 Books We’re Most Excited About Right Now”

One of Autostraddle’s “45 Queer Feminist Books To Read in Early 2017”

One of Bookanista’s Spring 2017 highlights

"Filled with explosive intelligence and dark humour, Sympathy is both beautiful and raw, and captures the essence of personal responsibility in the digital age’ --Elle, Author to Watch 2017

’The best fictional account I’ve read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives. A literary thriller that confirms the arrival of a major new talent’ -- Alex Preston, Observer Fiction to Look out for in 2017

’The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing writing’ -- Library Journal

’A dark, nuanced, fantastical and thrilling debut novel, posing questions of reality vs. fiction and exploring the ways that infatuation causes us to lose ourselves’ -- Chloe Caldwell, author of Women and I’ll Tell You in Person

’An impressive debut. Complex, crisp and highly topical’ -- Vesna Goldsworthy, author of Gorsky and Chernobyl Strawberries

’Olivia Sudjic elegantly explores the warped world of intimacies formed online - and how quickly those intimacies derail. Global in scope, as subtle as it is suspenseful, Sympathy is an extraordinary debut’ -- Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear

’At once a riveting mystery and a literary tour de force, Sympathy had me spellbound from the first page to the last’ -- Emily Gould, author of Friendship

’A mind-bending novel that skillfully depicts the bizarre interplay of technology and intimacy with a story that is compassionate, funny, and incredibly alarming’ --Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond

我们就Olivia Sudjic的第一部小说《同理心》,和Houghton Mifflin出版集团的的Lauren Wein 达成了一笔六位数的一揽子合约,在法兰克福书展开幕前的周四晚间就预先授予其美国境内的相关权利。

Olivia Sudjic’s first novel, SYMPATHY, for which we have agreed a great six-figure package deal with Lauren Wein at Houghton Mifflin, who pre-empted US rights on the Thursday night before Frankfurt.

About the Author/作者介绍: Olivia Sudjic于1988年生于伦敦。在学生时代,她就获得过英语类的奖学金,并凭借其短片小说获得过伊丽莎白女王奖。她曾经在剑桥大学学习英国文学,并为学生报纸《Varsity》供稿,获得了E.G. Harwood 英文奖并当选为Bateman学者。她曾为《观察家报》和《时代周刊》供稿。毕业之后,Olivia Sudjic在Wolff Olins担任品牌策略师。

Olivia Sudjic was born in 1988 in London. At school she won an English scholarship and the Queen Elizabeth II Prize for her short stories. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she wrote for Varsity, the student newspaper, was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize, and made a Bateman Scholar. She has written for the Review sections of The Observer and The Times, and after graduating, worked as a brand strategist for Wolff Olins.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况:One / Pushkin Press (pub: 4th April 2017); US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (pub: 4th April 2017); Germany / Switzerland: Kein & Aber; Italy: Minimum Fax; Poland: Czarna Owca

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