INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR SWALLOWING

Book ID/图书代码： 03240312B52935

English Summary/英文概要： The debut collection of short stories from the winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship in the Short Story, and leading exponent of steam-punk absurdism.

‘Adam Marek writes tales of the fantastic, the grotesque,and the impossible – all set in familiar, even mundane worlds. The effect may be unnerving or moving or hilarious, but always there is the gripping sense of an idea gestating to a point just short of revelation. Underpinning Marek’s fantasies there is a nagging psychological realism. In this debut collection, the English short story receives an injection of something new and compelling and spooky.’---Alex Linklater, founder of the National Short Story Prize

Robotic insects, in-growing cutlery, flesh-serving waiters in a zombie cafe... Welcome to the surreal, misshapen universe of Adam Marek’s first collection; a bestiary of hybrids from the techno-crazed future and mythical past; a users’guide to the seemingly obvious (and the world of illogic implicit within it). Whether fantastical or everyday in setting, Marek’s stories lead us down to the engine room just beneath modern consciousness, a place of both atavism and familiarity, where the body is fluid, the spirit mechanised, and beasts often tell us more about our humanity than anything we can teach ourselves.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 機械昆蟲，向內不斷生長的刀具，在僵屍咖啡館提供肉食服務…歡迎來到Adam Marek第一部超現實主義、怪異的世界；來自未來瘋狂電子和神秘過去的一場雜交動物大集會；一本看起來明顯（和隱含在世界的非邏輯）的使用者指南。無論虛幻還是日常環境，Marek的故事將帶領我們深入到機艙下方的現代意識，一種兼隔代遺傳和似曾相識的地方，在那裡身體是流動的液體，精神是被機械化的，而野獸經常告訴我們更多有關我們人類，比任何我們可以教會自己更多的的知識。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：‘There’s a transgressive thrill to Adam Marek’s debut collection of short stories that’s not simply a result of the potency of the subject matter... delightful.’---The Guardian.

‘Early McEwan meets David Cronenberg.... genuine, unsettling talent’---The Independent.

‘Marek’s fabulously meaty, funny writing makes the short story look really exciting again, pulling you, frame by frame, into a bright, strange future.’---Maggie Gee

About the Author/作者介绍： Adam Marek 生於1974年，他是兩部短篇小說《Instruction Manual for Swallowing/吞咽運動手冊》和《The Stone Thrower/投石者》的作者。他的作品曾被刊登和出現在《展望》，《New Writing 15》雜誌，（2003年和2005年）布裡德波特詩歌獎和（2006年Comma出版社）。
2008年，《Instruction Manual for Swallowing》入圍Frank O’Connor獎。2010年，Adam被《星期日泰晤士報》選為瑞士盈豐私人銀行獎，並在2011年1月，被宣佈為短篇故事藝術基金會獎學金得主。最後一次被這個基金會授予短篇小說類獎項的得主是阿莉•史密斯和蜜雪兒•法貝爾。
2007年，由《哈利•波特與魔法石》中的演員伊恩•哈特在倫敦的WordTheatre網站上朗誦。
Adam和妻兒現在居住在貝德福德郡。
Adam Marek was born in 1974, and is the author of two collections of short stories: Instruction Manual for Swallowing (Comma Press, 2008) and The Stone Thrower (Comma Press 2012). His stories have appeared in Prospect magazine, New Writing 15 ( edited by Maggie Gee and Bernardine Evaristo), The Bridport Prize Anthology (2003 and 2005) and Parenthesis (Comma Press, 2006). In 2008, Instruction Manual for Swallowing was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor prize. In 2010 Adam was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Prize, and in Jan 2011 Adam was announced the winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Short Story Writing. The last time this fellowship was awarded in the short story category it was shared by Ali Smith and Michel Faber.In 2007, his story‘Testicular Cancer vs the Behemoth’was read by Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) at the WordTheatre event in London. Adam lives in Bedfordshire with his wife and sons.

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