HISTORY OF WOLVES: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12844016B89901
English Summary/英文概要： A coming-of-age story that explores, in the words of Emily Fridlund’s young narrator, “the difference between what you want to believe and what you do.”
Linda has an idiosyncratic home life; her parents live in abandoned commune cabins in northern Minnesota and are hanging onto the last vestiges of a faded counter-culture world. The kids at school call her freak, or Commie, she is an outsider in all things. What she understands of the world comes from what she observes at school, where her teacher is accused of possessing child pornography, and from watching the seemingly ordinary life of a family she babysits for. The accusation against the teacher turns out to be more complicated, and perhaps more innocent than it at first seems. The ‘ordinary’ family turn out to be Christian Scientists who refuse to get medical care when their child becomes ill.
It’s a novel that pivots on a morally complex question - how complicit is the observer of a ‘crime’, how complicit is a child who neither fully understands her world, nor the consequences of her inaction.
As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful. --TC Boyle, author of The Harder They Come
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个关于成长的故事，描述了“你想要相信的和你所做的”之间的区别。
琳达的家庭环境非常特殊，她的父母住在明尼苏达州北部一间废弃的公社小屋中，接受着反文化的思想。学校里的孩子称琳达为怪胎，排挤她。她所了解的世界来自于她在学校中还有她为之照看婴儿的一个普通家庭的所观察到的一切。琳达的老师因为持有儿童色情书籍而被指控，但后来情况变得愈加复杂，这位老师可能是无辜的。而那个所谓普通家庭是基督教科学派，在孩子生病的时候，他们拒绝让其接受药物治疗。
这部小说向读者抛出了一个很复杂的问题——一场“罪案”的旁观者有罪吗？如果这个旁观者是个并不完全了解自己的世界，也不知道不作为后果的孩子呢？
这是我读过的最棒的处女作。充满诗意、复杂、又令人心碎。——TC•柏林，《艰难前行》作者（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：2017 Booker longlist
As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful. --TC Boyle, author of The Harder They Come
Emily’s novel is short-listed for the Booker Prize!
“A fine writer.” ―Library Journal
“Impressive . . . Fridlund has superb control of her first-person narrator and of the ‘show, don’t tell’ rule, so the reader must listen carefully, looking for clues.” ―Sydney Morning Herald
“‘Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed.’ So much is accomplished here, not least a kind of trust that this writer will make everything count, including the kind of data that is usually left for dead in a story. What is literary authority, after all, but the ability to regularly, without apparent effort, make the most of every sentence, build feeling in every line and do it in such a way that is tough, tight, funny, and often brilliantly disruptive?” ―Ben Marcus
“So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides! I’m so excited for readers to encounter the talent and roiling intelligence of Emily Fridlund.” ―Aimee Bender
“As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex, and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful.” ―T. C. Boyle
“So compelling, so filled with tension that I could not stop reading. A first novel this good gives me such incredible faith in the literary world that this young talent will bring us readers more and more of this exquisite prose and choice of words. She gets this close with sexual tension and then moves away in a way that allows you to let your breath out. And Paul, the innocent in this whole mess, is a victim but are the others as well? I love this so much!” ―Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books
“A punch to the heart lies at the center of History of Wolves―a punch readers may not see coming until some critical point when they look up from the page and realize what Fridlund has been doing to them all along: setting them up to knock them down. Hard. In this tremendous debut, she writes with unbelievable craft and depth of feeling about girlhood, sexual
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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾米丽•弗莱德路德在美国双子城出生长大，并获得了华盛顿大学小说硕士学位。她最近刚刚完成了南加州大学的文学和创意写作博士学位。艾米丽最新的作品名为《寻常东西出现在了不寻常的地方》。艾米丽与丈夫现居于纽约伊萨卡岛。
Emily Fridlund grew up in the Twin Cities and received her MFA in fiction from Washington University in Saint Louis. She recently completed her doctorate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Emily is currently working on a study of simultaneity in narrative, called The Usual Things in Unusual Places. She lives with her husband in Ithaca, New York.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：版权已售6国：The translation rights are sold in Germany (Berlin Verlag), France (Gallmeister), Holland (Signatuur) and Sweden (Bonniers). Grove are on their third printing in the US and the novel has been both a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and an Independent booksellers #1 Indie pick.
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