THE BODY IN QUESTION: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 02330019C00010

English Summary/英文概要： From the author of Heroic Measures ("Brave, generous, nearly perfect"--L.A. Times), Act of God, and (with Amy Hempel), The Hand That Feeds You ("An unnerving, elegant page-turner"--Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel about a shocking murder trial, a sequestered jury, and an affair between two of the jurors--the woman, in free fall in her life and marriage to a much older man.

The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. The setting: a utilitarian marble cube of a courthouse, more Soviet than Le Corbusier; and the court-appointed motel off the interstate.

Two of the jurors: Hannah, a 52 year-old former Rolling Stone, Interview Magazine photographer of rock stars and socialites (she switched to photographing animals when she realized she looked at people "as a species" rather than as individuals) and Graham, a 41 year-old anatomy professor, sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75.

As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are revealed during a string of days and seemingly endless court hours, the nights, playing out in a series of court-financed meals (Outback Steak House; Red Lobster; Domino’s pizza delivery), Hannah and Graham fall into a furtive affair, keeping their oath, as jurors, never to discuss the trial. During deliberations the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case and realize that their fellow jurors are wise to their affair. After the trial’s end, as Hannah returns home to her much older, now, suddenly, frail husband (they married when she was 24; he, 58) an exploding media fury involving the case catches them all up in a frenzy of public outrage at a jury that seems to have convicted the wrong twin, and a judge who has received an anonymous handwritten letter about a series of sexual encounters ("I feel it is my duty as a juror and a citizen to report that two of my fellow jurors had sexual contact on more than seven occasions during our nights at the motel..."), calling into question their respective verdicts, and announcing she is releasing the jurors’ names to the media. Hannah’s "one last dalliance before she is too old" takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as the novel moves to its affecting, powerful and surprising conclusion.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来自《英雄权衡》(“勇敢、慷慨、近乎完美”)、《天灾》（和艾米•亨佩尔）、《喂养你的手》(“令人不安,优雅的引人入胜的书”——《名利场》)的作者。一部高超的小说，一个令人震惊的谋杀案,一个幽静的陪审团和一个案件之间的两个陪审员——那个女人放任了自己的人生，和一个比她大很多的男人结婚了。

地点:佛罗里达州中部。情节:一场轰动的谋杀案审判，一个富有的白人少女——双胞胎姐妹——因可怕地谋杀了她蹒跚学步的弟弟而受审，陪审团决定了她的命运。背景:一座实用主义的法院，比勒柯布西耶更具苏联风格;还有州际公路旁法院指定的汽车旅馆。

其中两位陪审员是:52岁的汉娜和41岁的解剖学教授格雷厄姆。汉娜曾是《滚石》杂志的一名采访杂志摄影师，拍摄摇滚明星和社会名流(当她意识到自己把人当作“一个物种”而不是个体来看待时，她转而拍摄动物)。他躲在I-75号公路旁的经济旅馆里。

随着令人震惊和麻木的犯罪细节及其周围的事实在一连串的白天和似乎无穷无尽的法庭时间里被揭露出来，晚上，在法庭资助的一系列饭局里：红龙虾、达米诺披萨外卖公司、汉娜和格雷厄姆陷入了一段隐秘的恋情，作为陪审员，他们恪守自己的誓言，从不讨论审判。在审议过程中，这对恋人了解到他们站在案件的对立面，并意识到他们的陪审员伙伴对他们的婚外情是明智的。审判结束后，汉娜回到了家，回到了比她大得多的丈夫身边。他58岁,一名法官已经收到了一个匿名的手写信件关于一系列的性接触(“我觉得这是我的职责,作为一名陪审员公民报告我的两个同伴陪审员在我们晚上的旅馆有超过7次的性接触…”)，质疑他们各自的判决,并宣布她将向媒体公布陪审员的名字。汉娜的“在她太老之前最后一次调戏”采取深刻的个人和道德表现，作为小说走向它的影响，带来强大和惊人的结论。(WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：•“鲜明。引人入胜……可怕的有趣……一部聪明的，紧凑的，令人耳目一新的冷静的探索在死亡的事实中。”——《华尔街日报》萨姆•萨克斯

•“优秀……推动多个悬念的问题……清新,不反复讨论话题，在别人的小说可能会占用许多页面…这部小说的另一个乐趣的是如何故意,但实事求是地描绘了阶级差别…故事的结局我没有想到。这部巧妙扣人心弦的小说让我心绪不宁，也给我留下了深刻的印象。”——柯蒂斯•西滕菲尔德，《纽约时报》书评

•“对荒谬和存在主义恐惧的娴熟编排，是西蒙的风格的一大特色。这就是为什么西蒙的最新小说《被质疑的身体》如此完美地符合她作为小说家的能力……一个关于死亡和人类行为之谜的深刻故事……我很高兴能在西蒙聪明而令人不安的小说中被隔绝一段时间。”——NPR新闻，莫琳•科里根报道

•“西蒙是情境小说的大师，他创作了一个催眠术般的分叉故事，讲述信任与内疚、面具与双重、谎言与欲望、生与死。在这部关于道德和渴望的错综复杂、令人不安的故事中，她偷偷地调整了视角的深度，激发读者对证词的个人和司法提出质疑。”——书目

•“两个隔离陪审员关于佛罗里达谋杀案误入一个慷慨激昂的，非法事件。在这个迷人的、善解人意的小说中，西蒙列出了爱情故事和创作部分：一部分是即将来临的老年感情故事，温柔的敏感性和简单的情报，接近复杂的情感和双重效忠:用开放的思想和心灵观察她的角色的行为，考虑背景和不同视角的能力，对证据的欣赏，以及明显缺乏判断力。这种诚实、成熟地看待生活和爱情的态度，为越来越多的证据提供了支持，从而得出了一个决定性的结论:西蒙是一位值得一读的作家。”——故事

One of our recommended Great Summer Reads heralded in the New York Times Book Review!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/books/review/new-this-week.html

About the Author/作者介绍： 吉尔•西蒙出生于加拿大蒙特利尔。她获得过无数的资助和奖项，其中包括国家艺术奖学金、纽约艺术基金会的两项奖学金、珍妮特•海德格尔•卡夫卡奖和古根海姆奖。西蒙是佛罗里达大学的教授。她住在佛罗里达的盖恩斯维尔和纽约的布鲁克林。

JILL CIMENT was born in Montreal, Canada. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ciment is a professor at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.

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