CONSTELLATIONS: REFLECTIONS FROM LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 11701217C00091
English Summary/英文概要： Constellations is a powerful collection of essays covering topics including the body, feminism, nature, art, illness, landscapes, film, ghosts, colour, motherhood, and ways of seeing from writers such as Maggie Nelson and Rebecca Solnit. The collection is named Constellations because Gleeson maps a collection of stars in one frame, portraying a guide to looking at things from different angles, that connect into one like a constellation.
Constellations is a powerful collection of essays in the mould of writers such as Maggie Nelson and Rebecca
Solnit, adressing a wide range of topical and personal
issues with frankness and profundity.
Gleeson named the collection Constellations because she thinks ‘of all the metal in her body as stars, glistening beneath the skin. Constellations are a map, a collection of stars in one frame, a guide to looking at things from different angles. While each essay is separate - its own star, a distinct mass of light - they all connect, into one constellation.’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我开始把自己体内所有的金属支架都看作成为是人造的星星，在皮肤下闪闪发光，是一个由新旧金属组成的星座。是一张地图，一个连接追踪，和从不同角度看待事物的指南。
当你在经历疾病，健康，为人母的时候，你如何讲述身体的故事?当你不仅是一个不仅是一个女人，而且还是一个爱尔兰女人时，你又如何讲述这个故事?在这部深邃而又无畏的文句中，作者Sinéad Gleeson正是如此活出精彩。从出生到初恋，怀孕到为人母，从可怕的疾病，衰老和死亡，所有 的生命都跃然于纸面之上。在这部大范围的收藏中，作者还把不断进取之心投向了工作，艺术和我们观察事物的方式。在承袭了我们这个时代最优秀的作家的文风，但仍以其独有的浓厚的乐观向上的声音，带我们踏上了一条既富有独特性的私人的，又富有时代共鸣性的人生传记。这是痛并快乐的人生宣言。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：#1 BESTSELLER IN IRELAND
WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE MICHEL DEON PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARD
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN * OBSERVER * IMAGE * IRISH TIMES * NEW STATESMAN * IRISH INDEPENDENT
’Utterly magnificent. Raw, thought-provoking and galvanising; this is a book every woman should read.’ Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
“Gleeson is an eloquent storyteller, and the stories are held in delicate balance with the analysis of her world.”
—Guardian (UK)
“Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection brings together passionate, transcendent essays about bodies and art, ghosts and womanhood, grief and motherhood, and what it’s like to live in a body that fails you. Like the perfect title indicates, this is a glistening ensemble of pieces that live on their own but, all together, form a powerful emotional universe.”
—Elle (UK), "Ones to watch in 2019"
“Outstanding . . . wide-ranging, intimate, and expressive . . . it’s clear that Gleeson’s insight is hard-won, and that, like the women who inspire her, she has found a way to transmute her experience into something powerful that demands to be heard.”
—Observer (UK)
“Gleeson’s eye for detail, particularly the absurd or tragic, is dangerously sharp. She is a thoughtful writer who emerges from her illnesses resilient and unbowed.”
—Times(Ireland)
“Dazzling . . . Things are changing, thanks to tireless campaigners like Gleeson. These essays are political and they tell of how a life can be saved several times and lived to the full, despite great pain, despite great obstacles.”
—Irish Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Sinéad Gleeson的散文集曾在“Granta”，“Winter Papers”，“Gorse”，“Banshee”和其他一些杂志期刊上发表。她的短篇小说曾刊登在《Looking at the Stars》和《The Broken Spiral》选集中。除此之外，她还是另外三部短篇小说的编辑，其中《The Long Gaze Back: an Anthology of Irish Women Writers》和《The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland》均获得了爱尔兰最佳图书奖(Best Irish Published Book at the Irish Book Awards)。散文集《Constellations》将于2019年春季出版。目前作者正在筹划下一部小说。
此前，Sinéad曾主持过爱尔兰广播电视一台举报的四年一度的‘The Book Show’。
Sinead Gleeson is a writer, editor, freelance broadcaster and journalist. She has been featured in Granta and Gorse magazines, and her short story “Counting Bridges” was longlisted for the 2016 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards. She presents The Book Show on RTE Radio One. She has edited two non-fiction collections that were national bestsellers in Ireland and both won the Best Irish Published Book at the Irish Book Awards.
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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：SOLD
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Picador, US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Brazil: Relicario, China: Folio, France: Editions de la Table Ronde, Germany: btb, Korea: Adonis, Netherlands: HetMoet
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