ELEVEN HOURS

Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B86446

English Summary/英文概要： From the critically acclaimed author of The Virgins, Eleven Hours is an intimate exploration of the physical and mental challenges of childbirth, told with unremitting suspense and astonishing beauty.

Lore arrives at the hospital alone―no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward―herself on the verge of showing―is patient with the young woman. She knows what it’s like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. She knows as well as anyone the severe challenge of childbirth, what it does to the mind and the body.

Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that’s waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which she’s exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens’s novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth, and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhood―with fear and joy, anguish and awe.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Lore独身一人来到医院，没有丈夫，没有伙伴，没有朋友的陪伴。她对于怎么生的想法很明确：不要胎儿监护，不要静脉注射，不要止痛针。Franckline是产科护士，她的孩子也马上就要出生了，她对Lore很耐心，因为她知道时刻担心着什么事可能出错是多大的压力，她明白真的出了事的时候孕妇的心情。同时，她也知道分娩对孕妇的身心都是一个严峻的挑战。

本书关于两个即将生产的孕妇，在难产时，被迫回顾自己的过去并重新创建自己的未来。Lore必须从三角恋中脱身，Franckline必须走出过去的伤痛并接受即将到来的新生活。Pamela Erens娴熟地游走在两个故事之间，逐渐展开关于两个人的经历：对Lore而言，有关她孩子的父亲和她以前最好的朋友，对Franckline而言，有关流亡她的海地的家人。本书中有曲折的情节和诗意的抒情，再现了一个孩子的出生所带来的恐惧和喜悦、痛苦和敬畏。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：Pamela Erens先是将美梦变成了噩梦，然后再慢慢恢复，最终仍成就理想的美梦。其中的曲折过程通过微观的视角展现了我们根深蒂固的误解，读完以后相信读者会灵犀乍现：有人也曾经这样为我。这是一本必须读一下的书。（Elisa Albert，著有《AFTERBIRTH》）

本书节奏很快，Pamela Erens描写了两个女人的故事，其中一个如何生下自己的第一个孩子，另一个试图控制自己即将身为人母的种种担心。不可思议的是，这本美妙的小说让我们了解到这些人物以及她们生活中的一切。这是一本出色的、动人的悬疑小说。（MARGOT LIVESEY，著有《The Flight of Gemma Hardy》）

分娩是一个很少在文学中成为主题的内容，我从未见过能通过如此非凡的洞察力、紧张度以及文字渲染的作品。每一分感觉都被记录下来，Erens唤起了生活在另一个身体中的记忆和情感。就我知道，从没有另一个作家做到过。（Karen Russell，著有《VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE》）

“Pamela Erens has given us a dream that becomes a nightmare and is restored again to dream, a vital, microcosmic, fundamental, riveting, distilled illumination of our most profound and misunderstood passage, the rite at which every reader can marvel: someone once did that for me. As essential a novel as they come. ” (Elisa Albert, author of AFTERBIRTH)

“With exhilarating speed the wonderful Pamela Erens describes the stories of two women as one gives birth to her first child and the other tries to contain her fears around motherhood. Miraculously, in these few beautiful pages, we learn everything we need to know about these characters and their lives. A brilliantly suspenseful and moving novel.” (MARGOT LIVESEY, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy)

“Childbirth, this uniquely female form of heroism, is rarely documented in our literature, and I’ve never seen it rendered with the extraordinary insight, urgency, and potency of Eleven Hours. Every dilation and contraction of feeling is recorded, and Erens evokes the layered experience of living in a body― its tides of memory, sensation, and emotion―like no other writer I know.” (Karen Russell, author of VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE)

“With Eleven Hours Pamela Erens solidifies her standing as one of the most gifted fiction writers we have. This exploration of a woman’s time in labor is at once gritty and graceful, harrowing and compassionate. It is no small challenge to make a subject as old as life itself feel newly observed and newly revelatory, but Erens does exactly that and more. Bravo!” (Robin Black, author of LIFE DRAWING)

“Deeply moving and radiantly written, Eleven Hours is a gorgeous, harrowing, and intensely urgent novel. Pamela Erens is a mesmerizingly smart and powerful writer―I can’t stop thinking about this book” (Molly Antopol, author of THE UNAMERICANS)

“Eleven Hours is taut, spare and gorgeous, a slow beautiful spinning of tension and story that embraces two women whose lives interlock at the moment in which life enters the world: birth. Pamela Erens’ beautiful prose manages to be both meditative and urgent.” (Roxana Robinson, author of SPARTA)

“Quietly, without the fanfare she is due, Pamela Erens has become one of the finest novelists of the twenty-first century, and Eleven Hours is another confirmation.” (KYLE MINOR, author of Praying Drunk)

About the Author/作者介绍： PAMELA ERENS的第二部小说《The Virgins》获评《纽约时报》书评编辑选择奖，也是《纽约客》等多本杂志共同认可的2013年度最佳书籍，还入围了John Gardner图书奖2013年度小说奖的最终名单。Pamela的首部小说《The Understory》则入围了《洛杉矶时报》图书奖的最终名单以及William Saroyan国际写作奖的决赛。她的其他散文、文章以及评论曾发表于包括《ELLE》、《Vogue》、《纽约时报》等地。

PAMELA ERENS’s second novel, The Virgins, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was named a Best Book of 2013 by the New Yorker, the New Republic, Library Journal, and Salon. The novel was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award for the best book of fiction published in 2013. Pamela’s debut novel, The Understory, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Elle, Vogue, the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Millions.

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