THE FLOATING WORLD: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 00342517B99135
English Summary/英文概要： The Floating World tells the story of the Boisdorés, a Creole family whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans, as they attempt to reassemble their lives following Hurricane Katrina. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré, the family’s fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic--the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself.
This mystery is at the center of Morgan Babst’s haunting, lyrical novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in New York City to find her hometown in ruins, devastated by the storm and its aftermath, and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to reach Cora and understand where her sister wanders at night, and what she saw during the hurricane, she must also reckon with the history of the city and the trauma of destruction that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy perpetrated on New Orleans’s most helpless and forgotten citizens. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told--one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a nuanced understanding of this particular place and its tangled past, written by a New Orleans native who herself says that after Katrina, “if you were blind, suddenly you saw.”
Told from the points of view of each family member, this gorgeous debut is bathed in the sights, sounds, and smells of New Orleans, and is a profound Faulknerian family saga about what we choose to salvage in a world that destroys everything we hold most dear, and what we can possibly build out of what remains.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《浮世》讲述的是boisdoré的故事，一个克里奥尔家庭，其根源可以追溯到新奥尔良刚刚建立的时候，他们试图在卡特丽娜飓风后重新弄好他们的家。虽然风暴正在快速逼近路易斯安那海岸，Cora Boisdoré，家里的娇弱的大女儿，拒绝离开这个城市。她的父母，Joe Boisdor，是个艺术家，一个被解放的奴隶，后来成为城市最杰出的家具制造商，他娶了个白皮肤的“富人区”的妻子，Tess Eshleman博士，没有带上她就撤离了，后来发生了一系列事件，使得他们的婚姻岌岌可危，Cora患上了紧张性精神病--是一些暴力的被害者和施暴者，而这些暴力事件有的她自己都不知道。
这个秘密出现在Morgan Babst令人难忘的，抒情小说的中心。Cora的妹妹，Del，从她试图在那里建立家庭的纽约，回到新奥尔良去寻找他们在被风暴及其余波的破坏的废墟里的家，她和她的家人彼此疏离得很远。当Del试图找到Cora，了解她姐姐在晚上去了哪里，和她在刮飓风时所看到的东西，她还必须猜想一下城市的历史，飓风后毁坏后的创伤，事实上不是，一些随机的天灾而是一个可以避免发生的悲剧发生在新奥尔良最无助和被遗忘的人身上的悲剧。《浮世》是卡特丽娜需要讲述的故事，一个刺耳的，令人难忘的美丽和细致入微的了解这个地方和它的纠结过去的一个土生土长的新奥尔良人，她说，卡特丽娜之后，“如果你是盲人，你突然看到了。”
从每个家庭成员的角来叙述，这华丽出场，沐浴在新奥尔良的风景、声音和气味中，是一个深刻的Faulknerian家族传说，关于我们选择救助这个已经被摧毁了一切我们拥有的最珍贵的东西和那些我们可能从剩下的东西里可能构建出的东西。（YYW）
Awards/获奖情况：-This book is an achingly precise diagram of a city and family in heartbreak. Babst’s writing is fluid and insidious and hauntingly beautiful. The Boisdores join some of the great families of American fiction, fascinating kinfolk through whom we watch the rise and fall and rise of New Orleans.--Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman
-This is a rich and powerful novel, satisfying on many levels--wry, eloquent, passionate, and completely memorable.-
--Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Ghost of Mary Celeste
-In powerfully lyrical prose, Morgan Babst evokes the shattered lives strewn in the wake of the levee collapses that left New Orleans in ruins. It’s a story still difficult to believe--even by those of us who lived through it.---John Biguenet, author of The Rising Water Trilogy
-This powerful and lyrical novel captures the emotional currents in New Orleans after Katrina. With an authentic and sensitive voice, Morgan Babst explores family, race, class, and the essence of disruption.---Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs
"This book is an achingly precise diagram of a city and family in heartbreak. Babst’s writing is fluid and insidious and hauntingly beautiful. The Boisdores join some of the great families of American fiction, fascinating kinfolk through whom we watch the rise and fall and rise of New Orleans."--Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman
"This is a rich and powerful novel, satisfying on many levels--wry, eloquent, passionate, and completely memorable."--Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Ghost of Mary Celeste
"In powerfully lyrical prose, Morgan Babst evokes the shattered lives strewn in the wake of the levee collapses that left New Orleans in ruins. It’s a story still difficult to believe--even by those of us who lived through it."--John Biguenet, author of The Rising Water Trilogy
"This powerful and lyrical novel captures the emotional currents in New Orleans after Katrina. With an authentic and sensitive voice, Morgan Babst explores family, race, class, and the essence of disruption."--Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs
About the Author/作者介绍： C. Morgan Babst 在新奥尔良出生和长大，在耶鲁与罗伯特斯通，凯特沃尔伯特和艾米•布鲁姆 一起学习写作。她和家人飓风卡特丽娜登陆的前一天撤离了新奥尔良。几个月后，受益于飓风卡特丽娜，她在曼哈顿遇到了一个新奥尔良人，然后嫁给了他。十一年后，她回到新奥尔良，与丈夫和年幼的女儿在那儿成家立业。
C. Morgan Babst was born and raised in New Orleans and studied writing at Yale with Robert Stone, Kate Walbert, and Amy Bloom. She and her family evacuated New Orleans one day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Some months later, at a Katrina benefit in Manhattan, she met a fellow New Orleanian, and she married him. Eleven years later, she returned home to New Orleans to build a life with her husband and young daughter.
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