THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH IT
Book ID/图书代码： 14785012B52317
English Summary/英文概要： A yellow elephant appears in an apartment and shakes up the life of a woman unhappy in her marriage. A bored housewife finds herself unsettled by the foreign student who rents a spare room. A single mother goes to great lengths to find out the terrible truth about her teenage son. A teenager discovers a dark, compulsive desire while on a holiday job. O Thiam Chin, the Frank O Connor Award longlisted author of Never Been Better, delves into the hidden worlds of people caught in pivotal moments of their lives, in which everything they have held and believed are finally revealed for what they are, inevitably changing the course of their lives. From the breaking of long-held traditions to urban ennui, from the frankly erotic to an aching search for reconciliation, O depicts the strange, complicated facets of love in its different forms through these twelve new incisive and resonant stories.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一頭黃色的大象在公寓裡出現，改變了一名女子不幸的婚姻生活。一位無聊的家庭主婦發現自己因租了一間空房給外國學生，而變得忐忑不安。一個單身母親竭力想要找出她十幾歲的兒子的可怕真相。一名少年在暑期打工時發現了自己的一個陰鬱的強迫性欲望。O Thiam Chin，入圍Frank O Connor獎《Never Been Better》的作者，深入挖掘了隱藏在人們生活世界中的關鍵時刻，這些故事主人公們試圖在他們所擁有的和相信的一切事物中最終找尋到自我，但這一過程卻不可避免地改變了他們的生活軌跡。從長久以來綿續的傳統到人們對於城市生活的倦怠，作者通過從直白的情欲的描述到人們探求平衡而引發的內心極度地掙扎渴望，O通過對於這十二個新鮮而深刻的共鳴故事，描繪了愛的各種不同形式的奇怪而又複雜的方面。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：一部亞洲版的《巴別塔》—— 交錯的故事中不同的人物在最暗的夜裡探尋著人性之光。
讓我們無法擺脫現世，而是更真實地感受到生活本身。
提醒我們那些可能被遺忘了的存在，諸如某種生活狀態，某種內心需求，某些人和某些事。
About the Author/作者介绍： 生於1977年的O Thiam Chin，是一位新加坡短篇小說作家，曾發表過幾篇文學選集如：《馬來西亞故事：複述&懷疑》，《彩虹盛宴：新亞洲短篇故事》，《GASPP》，《新加坡情色小說選》《衣魚新作6》和《近身接觸》，以及在許多著名雜誌發表的期刊和網站上的文學作品，其中包括《今日世界文學》、《國際文學季刊》、《亞洲文學評論》、《新加坡季度文學評論》、《茶：亞洲的文學雜誌》、《京都議定書》雜誌、《雅加達郵報》、《新海峽時報》，《亞洲人》和《亞洲寫作》。他是三部短篇小說集的作者：《自由落體男人》（2006年），入圍Frank O Connor短篇小說獎的《從未如此親密》（2009年），2010年提名為流行明星讀者選擇獎的最佳10部小說之一。他最近的一本書，《陽光下》（2010年），也在2011年被提名為流行明星讀者選擇獎。他是2010年愛荷華州的國際寫作項目的榮譽院士。Born in 1977, O Thiam Chin is a Singaporean writer whose short stories have appeared in several literary anthologies such as Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed, A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories, GASPP, Best of Singapore Erotica, Silverfish New Writing 6 and Body2Body, as well as journals and websites that include World Literature Today, The International Literary Quarterly, Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kyoto Journal, The Jakarta Post, The New Straits Times, Asiatic, and Asia Writes. He is the author of three collections of short stories: Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009) which was longlisted for the Frank O Connor Short Story Award, and nominated as one of the best 10 fiction books in the Popular-The Star Readers Choice Awards in 2010. His last book, Under The Sun (2010), was also nominated for the Popular-The Star Readers Choice Awards in 2011. He was an honorary fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010.
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