THE THINGS WE LOSE, THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND
Book ID/图书代码： 14934116B86821
English Summary/英文概要： He is a new client of the agency and I’m currently submitting his first novel to UK publishers. However, he has three short stories collections published and highly acclaimed, and I handle foreign rights to the latest (winner of the 2013 Irish Book Awards). I know that short stories are difficult, but please believe me – these are truly outstanding. You will find information about the author attached (publications, awards, praise, etc.). More reviews are available, if needed – I just made a short selection.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部 Billy O’Callaghan的全新合集探索了灾难过后，受到影响的人们在日常生活中或微妙或明显的生存状态。这些故事中所描绘的人物都曾经受到生活和境遇的折磨。他们平静的生活被打破，不得不直面真实世界的各种问题，包括离婚、流产、癌症、遗弃、丧失亲人、爱情的解体等。本书展现了人类心灵超乎寻常的坚韧。我们为已经失去或放弃的事物背负着罪恶、伤心和遗憾，却仍然在寻找光明，忍辱负重。本书的13个故事便是为照亮黑暗而生。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“我认为大西洋两岸没有人比Billy O’Callaghan更善于探索遭受打击后的人类精神。小说集中的故事令人悲痛却又振奋人心，异常伤感却又魅力非凡。Billy O’Callaghan是英语语言的珍宝。”——Robert Olen Butler，作家，作品《A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain》获得普利策奖
“艺术性……引人入胜。 O’Callaghan笔下的人物非常顺从，因此他们的失败显得十分可信，但同时，故事情感充沛，足以令我们相信这些失败并非单纯由于运气不佳，而是真实的悲剧。”——《Hudson Review》（美国）
“O’Callaghan运用语言表达情感的能力可谓炉火纯青。几句话便可将你带入每一个故事。各种语句从书上飘来，将你紧紧环绕，将作品的情感和痛苦转化为读者自己的感受……读来令人欣喜……文风直接，情感强烈，风格鲜明，是一部优美的作品。”——《The Red Curtain》
“I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan. The stories in The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind are at once harrowing and uplifting, achingly sad and surpassingly beautiful. O’Callaghan is a treasure of the English language.” —Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain “The artistry… is spellbinding. O’Callaghan has injected his characters with enough resignation to make their failures believable, but enough emotion to convince us the failures are tragedies, not merely bad luck.” —Hudson Review (USA) “O’Callaghan writes evocatively of a way of life that has become memory rather than reality… he demonstrates an affinity with people and place which is tender but never trite, and invariably rewards the reader with a surprising twist.” —The Irish Times
“O’Callaghan’s ability to use words to convey emotion is astonishing. He can draw you into each story in a few sentences, the words coming up from the page and wrapping around you, transmitting that emotion, the aching from the core of the piece into the reader themselves… a delight to read, with strong, immediate prose, a distinctive style that becomes a thing of beauty.” —The Red Curtain
About the Author/作者介绍： Billy O’Callaghan，1974年生于爱尔兰的科克。著有三部短篇小说集。其中，《我们所失去的，我们所遗忘的》中的同名短篇小说获得爱尔兰图书奖年度短篇小说。在过去的十年间，他创作的70多篇短篇小说发表于全球各类文学杂志及期刊，并获得10余个图书奖项或提名。
Billy O’Callaghan has published three short story collections, In Exile (2008) and In Too Deep (2009), and The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind (2013), which won the 2013 Irish Book Awards. His fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Kyoto Journal, Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Southeast Review, Southword, Versal, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Kenyon Review, London Magazine, and numerous other magazines and journals around the world. In addition to winning the Irish Book Award, he’s received bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has won and been short-listed for numerous other prizes, including the Francis McManus Award, the Molly Keane Award, the George A. Birmingham Award, the Faulkner/Wisdom Award, and the Sean O’Faolain Award. His work has featured on RTE Radio’s “Book On One”, “Sunday Miscellany” and the Francis McManus Awards series, and he has been shortlisted four times for the PJ O’Connor Award for Drama.
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