THE FRIEND

Book ID/图书代码： 12800717C00001

English Summary/英文概要： A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog’s care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.

Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2018年 #美国国家图书奖# 获奖作品
一本写给被压迫女性的书
一本写给普天下爱宠的书

小说的主线是一条被誉为犬类中的阿波罗的巨型犬——大丹犬与主人公相知相伴的故事，讲述了失去与重生的互化。女主人公的导师（也是情人）自杀身亡，留下三位心术各异的夫人，还有一个无言的哀悼者——大丹犬阿波罗 。大丹犬已经不再抱任何希望能够再见到它的主人。它不自杀，不哭泣，但是各种迹象表明它可能而且真的会崩溃。

在与三位莫衷一是、尽情表演的夫人还原追忆被亡者带走和掩盖的各种真相的日子里，女主人公与大丹犬开始相互接纳相互保护。两者间逐渐萌生出的默契与爱意成了对信念、对友谊最好的注解，令女主人公自己也获重生。

小说多条支线并进，涉及战争创伤、性别歧视、婚姻伦理、“Me Too”运动等当下诸多热点问题，充满了当代知识女性对自身生存环境、对女权问题的探索、拷问与自省。作品在故事架构上所用的实验手法，出其不意地实现了情节的大反转，给人以独特的阅读上的戏剧感。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况：“对悲伤、写作和人类犬类的感情的无情的审问。”

我们喜欢在这篇新闻简报中分享早期的兴奋，将于2018年2月出版，所以本周我们想要强调西格丽德•纳则的新小说朋友。第一篇评论是在一部由柯美斯主演的电影，它宣称它“既精彩又阴暗幽默……在痛苦和美丽中都令人惊叹；一个单一的书。“银行广场书店的约翰弗朗西科尼是第一个阅读这本书的书商，并回到我们身边——他有这样的说法：“最新的，也是最让人印象深刻的，是日益增长的现实饥饿书籍中最令人印象深刻的一本书。”它有一个自我叙述的叙事者，通过她的关于悲伤、爱、写作、教学、孤独和动物控制的思想。朋友是我所品味的一本书，将来也会很愉快地再次回味。“谢谢约翰，我们希望你们中有更多的人有机会读到这本书。”

在纳则（拯救城)的引人入胜的新小说中，这位无名的叙述者在第二个人的想法中，对一个未透露姓名的老朋友，一个最近突然自杀的人发表了讲话。这两个人第一次见面是在几十年前，当时她是他的学生，实际上是同一个学期，当时一个同学变成了三个妻子的“一个”。虽然妻子和情人都来了，但叙述者始终保持着对死者的友好关系，这是一种柏拉图式的，但又强烈而又复杂的关系。哀悼日，她开始写一种宣泄的哀歌，成为对写作、失去和各种形式的爱的一种更大的沉思。在这本书的早期，妻子三次打电话问，叙述者是否会为一个名叫阿波罗丹麦狗狗承担责任，他在中央公园被发现被遗弃了。

“AN UNSENTIMENTAL INTERROGATION OF GRIEF, WRITING, AND THE HUMAN-CANINE BOND”

Forthcoming Film Adaptation Starring Naomi Watts
Winner of the National Book Award 2018
The New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2018
NYPL Best Books of 2018
Indie Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award

"Nunez has proved herself a master of psychological acuity." —The New Yorker

"Refreshingly impatient with the conventions of fiction, Nunez is capable of upending our expectations to powerful ends." —The New York Review of Books

"Quietly brilliant and darkly funny...It is a lonely novel: rigorous and stark, so elegant... it hardly

feels like fiction. Breathtaking both in pain and in beauty; a singular book." —Kirkus Reviews(starred)

About the Author/作者介绍： 西格丽德•努涅斯，美国当代著名女作家，2018年美国书业最高奖——国家图书奖获得者，生于1951年，父亲是中国-巴拿马混血，母亲是德国人。

上世纪七十年代中叶，作为《纽约书评》的助理编辑，年轻的努涅斯成为处于癌症术后恢复期的苏珊·桑塔格的助手，由此进入一代知识偶像的私人生活。三十多年后，她以一部立意独特的小型传记——《永远的苏珊：回忆苏珊·桑塔格》轰动文坛。

努涅斯执教于哥伦比亚、普林斯顿等多所高校，为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》《巴黎评论》等媒体专栏作家，目前是波士顿大学驻校作家。她的小说创作涉及移民文化、跨文化交流与冲突等，对性别、种族歧视，人口贩卖，战争创伤等严肃而沉重的全球社会性话题，有着深刻而勇敢的思考与表现。

本书是努涅斯的第七部小说，2018年获得美国国家图书奖，并入围同年布克奖短名单。

Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, and For Rouenna, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Nunez lives in New York City.

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