FLOATING LIKE THE DEAD
Book ID/图书代码： 12760011B51292
English Summary/英文概要： In this sharply observed and erotically charged debut collection, Journey Prize winner Yasuko Thanh immerses us in the lives of people on the knife edge of desire and regret, hungry for change. In “Her Vietnamese Boyfriend,” a story set in 1960s Germany that crackles with sexual tension, a young woman is sent to work for a farmer as a homemaker while his wife is away. In “His Lover’s Ghost,” a man is forced to confront his own fears about being left behind when his dying lover becomes convinced he is being visited by a ghost. In “Hunting in Spanish,” a woman in a Mexican resort town where anything goes pushes herself to the limits of love and despair. And in the Journey Prize-winning title story, “Floating Like the Dead,” a group of Chinese lepers at the turn of the twentieth century spend their last days dreaming of escape from exile on a remote island off the coast of Canada.
The characters in these stories are expats, outsiders, and outliers; yet in their struggles to be themselves and to belong, they remind us of our own deepest longings and desires. With this seductive and emotionally compelling collection, Yasuko Thanh announces herself as an exciting new voice in Canadian fiction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Yasuko Thanh的这部荣获加拿大旅行奖的小说向我们展现了现代人生活在欲望和愧疚的焦灼感，以及人们对改变的渴求。
在这部合集中的一则“她的越南男友”中，故事发生在气氛凝重而紧张的60年代德国,一个年轻女子被派前去为一个刚丧妻的农场主，那里担任管家一职。而在另一则“他的鬼情人”故事中,一个被逝去爱人鬼魂袭扰的男人不得不担忧自己的后事。“西班牙狩猎”中，在墨西哥度假胜地一个疯狂地对爱渴望和追求的女人。而在荣获加拿大旅行奖的故事,“漂浮的行尸”中,一群中国麻风病人梦想能在20世纪逃离流亡到加拿大海岸的一个小岛上渡过自己的余生。
这些故事中所有的人物都是亡命之人,局外人,和离群所居者;然而,他们却在努力在自己寻找一个归属,他们提醒我们自己内心中最为深藏的渴求与欲望。凭借着这部诱人而又充满着强烈情感的故事集,Yasuko Thanh将会是加拿大文坛的一颗令人为之振奋的新星。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“運用簡單的語言，Thanh精心地抒寫了這部具有強烈情感共鳴的和極大抑制力的故事 —一部對她筆下的人物和她的讀者都表示敬意的上乘佳作。 ”
—— 對“Floating Like the Dead/漂浮的行屍”旅行獎的評講附言“Yasuko Thanh是一位完美的擅長表述人物特色的獨一無二的作者，無論這些故事人物是在邊緣線上亦或是在歷史的陰影的籠罩下生活。無論何處，她的故事带給我們， Thanh的作品中那字裡行間散發著真實，逼真的細節世界。”
—Lee Henderson
“一部了不起的作品：充滿着睿智，幻想的，動人的和異國情調。這只靈巧的寫作手筆從引出的人物特性，將使我們無法忘懷。這些故事顯示了我們大多數人的心路歷程。”
—Bill Gaston
“Using artfully simple language, Thanh has crafted a story of powerfully resonant emotion with tremendous restraint – a gift that respects both her characters and her readers.” — JOURNEY PRIZE JURY CITATION
“Yasuko Thanh is a one-of-a-kind writer who perfectly inhabits the voices of her characters, whether they’re living on the margins or in the shadows of history. No matter where her stories take us, Thanh’s prose shines with true, living detail.” — LEE HENDERSON
“A masterful first book: wise, capricious, moving, and exotic. Here’s a dexterous hand guiding characters we won’t soon forget. These stories show us the many routes of the heart.” — BILL GASTON
“Thanh’s stories arrive as advertised – afloat on gorgeous prose, populated by men and women who hover at edge of life’s grand transitions. A remarkable debut by an observant and talented writer.” — MICHAEL TURNER
http://www.iheartradio.ca/cfax-1070/yasuko-than-city-of-victoria-butler-book-prize-winner-1.3366498
About the Author/作者介绍： Yasuko Thanh因其最近发表的短篇小說，而榮獲2009年度的Journey Prize（加拿大旅行獎）。Yasuko的作品在各地发行，作者本人喜好游历歐洲和北美各地。她和丈夫和兩個女兒目前住在不列顛哥倫比亞省(加拿大西部省份)的維多利亞州。《Teddy’s Blow-Off Attraction/泰迪散发的魅力》是她的首部小說。
Yasuko Thanh is most recently the 2009 winner of the annual Journey Prize for the best short story published in Canada. Yasuko has published her stories widely and travelled all over Europe and North America. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Victoria, British Columbia. Teddy’s Blow-Off Attraction is her first novel.
Format:电子手稿
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Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2012
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