SWALLOWED BY THE COLD
Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B86354
English Summary/英文概要： The intricate, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s extraordinarily poised story collection are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years.
In Swallowed by the Cold, people are besieged and haunted by disasters both personal and national: a fatal cycling accident, a drowned mother, a fire on a ferry, a mysterious arson, the assassination of the Swedish foreign minister, and, decades earlier, the Soviet bombing of Stockholm. In these stories, a drunken, lonely woman is convinced that her new neighbor is the daughter of her dead lover; a one-armed tennis player and a motherless girl reckon with death amid a rainstorm; and happening upon a car crash, a young woman is unaccountably drawn to the victim, even as he slides into a coma and her marriage falls into jeopardy.
Again and again, Beach’s protagonists find themselves unable to express their innermost feelings to those they are closest to, but at the same time they are drawn to confide in strangers. In its confidence and subtle precision, Beach’s prose evokes their reticence but is supple enough to reveal deeper passions and intense longing. Shot through with loss and the regret of missed opportunities, Swallowed by the Cold is a searching and crystalline book by a startlingly talented young writer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Jensen Beach的这个错综复杂、环环相扣的故事发生在波罗的海边的一个瑞典村庄中以及斯德哥尔摩，横跨了两年的时光。
在本书中，人们受到各种灾难的困扰，有些是个人的，有些是全国性的：致命的自行车事故，溺水身亡的母亲，渡轮上的火灾，神秘的纵火案，瑞典外交大臣被暗杀，以及发生在几十年前的苏联轰炸斯德哥尔摩事件等等。在这些故事中，一个喝醉酒的寂寞女人深信她的新邻居是她死去的情人的女儿，一个独臂的网球选手和一个没有母亲的女孩在暴雨中面临死亡的威胁，卷入车祸的一名年轻女子莫名其妙地被受害者吸引，即使他已经昏迷而她的婚姻也已经陷入危险的境地。
一次又一次，Beach书中的主人公发现自己无法对那些他们最亲近的人表达内心的感受，但同时，他们却能向陌生人倾诉。通过自信而微妙的文笔，Beach的散文展现了他们在沉默的同时如何不乏更深层次的激情和强烈的渴望。这些故事定格了失去机会的遗憾，本书是一个拥有惊人天赋的年轻作家的最新思想结晶。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Jensen Beach是玩弄语言的行家。他的文字是精确的、充满同情的、无比坦率的，因此最终的作品是非凡的。（Jack Livings）
‘Jensen Beach is a master of linguistic restraint, a writer whose precision, empathy, and relentless honesty form the spine of this extraordinary work of fiction.’ – Jack Livings
About the Author/作者介绍： Jensen Beach曾出版了小说集《For Out of the Heart Proceed》。他的作品曾发表于包括《A Public Space》、《纽约客》等地。他在约翰逊州立学院教授艺术课程，现与家人住在佛蒙特州。
Jensen Beach is the author of the collection For Out of the Heart Proceed. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The New Yorker, Ninth Letter, Tin House, and elsewhere. He teaches in the BFA program at Johnson State College and lives in Vermont with his family.
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