WHAT YOU SEE IN THE DARK: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 14935510B39409

English Summary/英文概要： Although Manuel continues to write about the place where he grew up, California’s Central Valley, What You See in the Dark is a novel in which a few cultural preoccupations that have lent Manuel’s previous work a modernist feel—even when he’s writing about people and places among the last to see signs of progress and change—are the vehicle for an exploration of the interpersonal, which has always been subject number one anyway. One of those preoccupations is the movies, and in What You See in the Dark Hollywood comes to Bakersfield in the form of the unnamed Janet Leigh and Alfred Hitchcock about to begin work on an iconic film that will change things forever. You know it—the one in which a young woman on the run checks into a roadside motel and is brutally murdered in the shower. The actress and director have no idea, though, about the circumstances surrounding the recent murder of another young woman in Bakersfield—an aspiring singer killed in the book’s first chapter—that rival anything the director could ever put on the screen. The reason, Manuel seems to suggest: novels can go where movies cannot. Far from being a retelling of the plot of the Hitchcock film, though, What You See in the Dark explores that particularly American strain of violence, the interior lives of women, the roles we all play in our own stories and in the stories imagined by others, and underneath it all, our love of moviegoing: the act of letting ourselves into the darkness of our imaginations and waiting to see what happens when a story comes to fill that space.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 據西方媒體報導，曼紐爾的這本小說閱讀起來十分扣人心弦，也闡釋出了深刻的道理。該小說以一段甜蜜的愛情故事驚喜開篇，隨之而來就是在美國人夢幻般的空想中追溯暴力行為的曲折發展史。“本書各個章節優美嫺熟的鏈結起來，一氣呵成，內容新穎之程度令人叫絕。”Household Words and Ideas of Heaven的作者Joan Silber如是評價.

曼紐爾的小說通常情節設計微妙，採用第二人稱寫作，非常具有吸引力。而他的處女秀What You See in the Dark正是如此。

《出版人周刊》评价到：“抒情散文的寫作手法與對犯罪行為連鎖效應的感性描述遠遠超出了一般作品的黑色元素。”

曼紐爾依然在用他的筆描述著生他養他的家鄉-加利福利亞州的中央谷地，與以前不同的是，What You See in the Dark這本小說涉及了文化領域內的一些當務之急，儘管他對人物與地點的描寫不太能讓人感受到進步與改變，但卻著實為其之前的作品增添了些許現代感。其中值得關注的一件事就是電影行業。在本作品中，好萊塢到貝克費爾斯取景拍攝。影片中一位年輕女士入住路邊的旅館，卻在浴室慘遭殺害。但是，在書的第一章所提到的，一位有抱負的女歌手同样在貝克費爾斯遇害的情境，無論演員還是導演都並不瞭解，更沒有辦法在荧屏上演繹出來。这就是曼紐爾意在表達出一種理念，即電影是無法表達出文學作品的某些內涵與深意，小說遠遠不止重述一部電影的情節，在What You See in the Dark中尤其探索了美國人面對暴力的壓力，我們所扮演的自己生活中的角色以及他人想象中的世界…讓我們陷入自我幻想的黑暗中，等待著接下來會有什麼事發生，會有一個什麼樣的故事情節來填補我們想像的空間。(兼职翻译-徐曼曼)

Awards/获奖情况：And here’s a blurb we just received (that will appear on the galleys):
"Manuel Muñoz has written a novel that is gripping to read and illuminating in what it says. What You See in the Dark begins with a sweet romance and a dark surprise, as it traces the winding path of violence in our dreamy American longings. How beautifully the pieces of this book fit together, and how radiantly original it is."-- Joan Silber, author of Household Words and Ideas of Heaven

Beautiful news!

https://www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/2023-jco-prize-winner

Manuel Muñoz Receives the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize New Literary Project

About the Author/作者介绍： 曼紐爾.穆尼奧斯是一位天才作家，出生于美國加利福尼亞州的中央谷地。到目前為止，曼紐爾已經出版了兩部短篇故事集。其最近出版的《奧利弗大街上的信仰救贖者》入圍了弗蘭克.歐康納國際短片小說大獎賽。曼紐爾目前在亞利桑那州大學教授創作性寫作，並享受美國國家藝術基金會補貼。

2008年，曼紐爾被授予懷庭作家獎。

Although Manuel continues to write about the place where he grew up, California’s Central Valley, What You See in the Dark is a novel in which a few cultural preoccupations that have lent Manuel’s previous work a modernist feel—even when he’s writing about people and places among the last to see signs of progress and change—are the vehicle for an exploration of the interpersonal, which has always been subject number one anyway.

Format:电子手稿

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold: France-Editions Joelle Losfeld

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