ZAZEN
Book ID/图书代码： 00110910B42206
English Summary/英文概要： Somewhere in Della’s industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last. Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist co-workers at the vegan café would rather change their identities than the problematic world around them--a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption.
Not for Della. In search of clarity, and unburdened by ideological posturing, Della calls in bomb threats to various locations throughout her city. She relishes the panic and confusion incited by her fabrications. But when real explosions suddenly strike her imagined targets, Della is lured into a catastrophic plot from which there may be no return.
In Della, Vanessa Veselka has forged a speaker for our time, too smart to follow the crowd but unsure of how to shed the cultural baggage that haunts her. At once authentic and hallucinatory, fearless and uproariously funny, Zazen portrays a world that might be considered dystopic speculation if it didn’t so sharply mirror our own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在德拉某处的一个城市工业废弃地，炸弹熄灭了。这不是第一次，也不会是最后一次。 对攻击的反击呈现了两极化。警察活动愈加频繁。德拉的革命派父母欢迎这样的动荡但被他们自己的狭隘观念所困。她在素食咖啡馆的活动家同事宁愿改变他们身份也不愿意改变围绕在他们周围充满问题的世界——一次对染发剂、性和自我沉溺的抵抗。
而德拉不是这样。通过摆正理念，追求明白和无负担，德拉呼吁在整个城市各个地点设置炸弹威胁。她玩味着恐慌和混乱，捏造煽动。但是，当真正的爆炸突然袭击她想象中的目标时，德拉被卷进了一个灾难性的阴谋，可能再也无法回头。
在德拉身上，凡妮萨•弗萨尔卡铸就了我们这个时代的传话筒，愚蠢地随波逐流，不知道如何摆脱困扰着她文化包袱。立刻让人感到既是真实又是幻觉，既无畏又滑稽，《坐禅》描绘了一个异位投机的世界，如果不是那么犀利地镜射我们自身的话。(兼职翻译-JDM)
Awards/获奖情况：“凡妮萨•弗萨尔卡就像一颗文学彗星：明亮地燃烧，影响深远，很罕见又略带危险。”——汤姆•比塞尔
About the Author/作者介绍： 凡妮萨•弗萨尔卡在不同时期有着不同的身份：十几岁的失足少女、性工作者、工会组织者、古生物学的学生、外国人、独立的唱片公司老板、露天火车厢乘客、女服务生以及一位母亲。她的作品出现在《Bust》、《Bitch》、《Maximum rock’n’roll》和其他地方。《坐禅》是她的第一部小说。 Vanessa Veselka has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. Her work has appeared in bust, bitch, maximum rock ’n’ roll, and elsewhere. Zazen is her first novel.
Format:电子手稿
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