SWALLOW SUMMER
Book ID/图书代码： 03240317C00011
English Summary/英文概要： Two music producers pack up their studio along with their dreams of ever making it in the industry after too many bands fail to pay their bills...
A woman takes up an invitation to visit an ex-lover in Arizona, only to find his apartment is no bigger than a motel room...
A former drama student runs into an old classmate from ten years before, hardly recognising the timid creature he has become...
Each character in Larissa Boehning’s debut collection experiences a moment where they re forced to confront how differently things turned out, how quickly ambitions were shelved, or how easily people change. Former colleagues meet up to reminisce about the failed agency they used to work for; brothers-in-law find themselves co-habiting long after the one person they had in common passed away; fellow performers watch as their careers slowly drift in opposite directions. Boehning’s stories offer a rich store of metaphors for this abandonment: the downed tools of a deserted East German factory, lying exactly where they were dropped the day Communism fell; the old, collected cameras of a late father that seem to stare, wide-eyed, at the world he left behind. And yet, underpinning this abandonment, there is also great resilience. Like the cat spotted by a demolition worker in the penultimate story that sits, unflinching, as its home is bulldozed around it, certain spirits abide.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 两个音乐制作人关上了他们的录音室，因为他们看到太多的乐队在追逐梦想的过程中逐渐连账单也付不起了。
一个女人收到邀请来拜会住在亚利桑那州的老情人，却发现他的公寓比汽车旅馆的房间大不了多少。
一个前戏剧学校学生偶遇一个十年前的同学，几乎无法相信他的性格已经变得如此懦弱胆小。
Larissa Boehning这本处女集中的每一个人物都是独特的，他们必须要去面对不同的结果，雄心不得施展，人心飞速变换。以前的同事们聚在一起哀悼过去工作的地方不复存在，姐夫和小舅子发现当他们共同的情人逝去之后留下了他们两人一起生活，演员们眼看着自己的事业走向另一个方向。Boehning的故事内容很丰富，却总是荡漾着一种失去的荒凉。然而总有恢复的时候，精神总会回来。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：作为一部处女集，这本书真是棒极了。（European Lit Network）
Larissa Boehning的处女作品集虽然短小却蕴含了无比丰富的生活感悟。她很好地平衡了德语的表述，且写出了迎合全球口味的故事。（Glasgow Review of Books）
"As a debut collection, Swallow Summer is impressive." - European Lit Network --http://eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingreviews-judith-vonberg-reviews-swallow-summer-by-larissa-boehning/
"Larissa Boehning s debut collection Schwalbensommer is as short as it is rich in life experience... Marven strikes a fine balance between keeping the Germanness of Swallow Summer and teasing out the universal appeal of the stories..." - Glasgow Review of Books --https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2016/09/15/swallow-summer-an-interview-with-lyn-marven-on-translating-larissa-boehning/
About the Author/作者介绍： Larissa Boehning出生于1971年，住在柏林，是一个设计师、讲师和自由职业作家。她收入《Silent Fish, Sweetheart》的短篇故事获得了2002年度 Prenzlauer Berg文学奖。她的首部小说《LichteStoffe》入围德国图书奖，并获得了Pinneberg文华奖以及Mara Cassens2007年度新小说奖。她此后的小说包括《Das Glück der Zikaden》以及《Nichtsdavonstimmt, aberallesistwehr》。
Larissa Boehning was born in 1971, lives in Berlin and works as a graphic designer, lecturer and freelance writer. Larissa’s short story from this collection, ’Silent Fish, Sweetheart’, won the 2002 Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize. Her debut novel Lichte Stoffe, (Light Materials, Eichborn, 2007) was longlisted for the German Book Prize and received the city of Pinneberg Culture Prize and the Mara Cassens Prize for best debut novel in 2007. Her novels since include Das Glück der Zikaden, (The Song of the Cicadas, Galiani, 2011), and most recently Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wehr, (None of it is Right, but it is All True, Galiani, 2014).
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