BUTTERFLY SKIN
Book ID/图书代码： 12761511B45745
English Summary/英文概要： “I once dreamt of becoming a rock star. Standing on stage, covered in blood like Iggy Pop or Nick Rock ’n Roll. My dream has come true. I am a serial killer.”
An internet newspaper carries a report on the deeds of a sexual offender and serial killer. An ambitious female journalist with masochistic tendencies is looking for extreme sex. The killer commits one murder after the other. It is as though these two have been looking for each other all their lives. Only emptiness and pain remain where the two encounter each other. But pain knows no lies.
Set in a modern day Moscow plagued with a series of gruesome murders by a killer who preys upon women, Butterfly Skin is a dark, hypnotic novel by 31-year-old author Sergei Kuznetsov. Its extraordinary protagonist Xenia, an ambitious young senior editor in the news department of a small but influential online journal, decides to track down the serial killer, devising an elaborate web site to entrap him and thereby boost her company’s profile. She soon realizes, however, that her obsession with the psychopath reflects something more deeply disturbing: her own unconscious mixture of horror and fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders.
Pleased by the public response to the web site, which fuels her growing reputation as a Moscow journalist, and only mildly troubled by her increasingly masochistic and abusive sexual relationships, Xenia seems to find an antidote to personal loneliness through female friendships, occasional kinky trysts with male partners, and the instantaneous sexual gratification of the internet. This balance begins to falter, with harrowing consequences, as she becomes morbidly preoccupied with the unknown and seemingly unknowable killer ... and he, it turns out, with her.
Through his riveting plot and singular characters, Kuznetsov explores the sometimes pathological fallout resulting from our instant connectivity in the emerging world of emails, facebook, twitter, and other forms of electronic “intimacy.” The novel has enjoyed a cult reputation in Russia, especially among female readers aged 15 to 30, from whom the author continues to receive fan mail. Andrew Bromfield, who translated the novel into English on spec, is the distinguished translator of Tolstoy, Bulgakov, and Voinovich; as well as some of Russia’s most celebrated contemporary authors, including Boris Akunin and Victor Pelevin.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我曾梦想成为一个摇滚明星。舞台之上，活力四射，犹如Iggy Pop或Nick Rock ’n Roll。梦想成真了！我已然是连环杀手。”网络新闻报道了性侵犯和连环杀手的罪行。富有野心的女记者，伴有变态性行为倾向。罪犯杀手承认的罪行一宗接一宗。一生之中一直在追寻彼此。两者见面后独存空虚和痛苦。然而痛苦辨别不出任何的谎言。(兼职翻译-PZ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Sergei Kuznetsov1966年生于莫斯科。在20世纪90年代，作为俄国的网络先行者，之后他为《花花公子》，《时尚》，《办公室》等多家杂志写稿。2001年成为第一个俄罗斯网络作家。
Sergei Kuznetsov was born in 1966 in Moscow. In the 1990’s he achieved a high profile as one of the pioneers of the internet in Russia and subsequently writes for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy, Vogue and L’Officiel, amongst others. In 2001 he became the first Russian
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