THE WEIGHT OF A HUMAN HEART
Book ID/图书代码： 01899512B53224
English Summary/英文概要： Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this collection turns the rules of storytelling on their head.
A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step.
A literary stoush – and an affair – play out in the book review section of a national newspaper.
The heartbreaking story of a Rwandan boy is hidden within his English exam paper.
A young girl learns her mother’s disturbing secrets through the broken key on a typewriter.
Ranging from Australia to Africa to China and back again, The Weight of a Human Heart heralds a fresh new voice in Australian literature.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一曲亦悲亦喜的故事集，字里行间亦左右你的喜悲。
一幅幅画面仿若段段剪影再现，生动地记录着一场婚姻的失败过程，每一步都走得痛彻心扉。
是当头棒喝还是社会事件？直至全国性报纸刊登了其评论，一切才似乎逐渐平息。这是一个叫人心碎的故事，关于一名卢旺达少年，和他藏匿在英文考卷中的一段心酸故事。
年轻的姑娘无意间触动了母亲打字机上折断的钥匙，揭开了一直以来母亲坐立难安的秘密。
从澳洲到非洲再至中国，作者巧妙穿梭在迥然相异的时空之中，使得这本《心的重量》成为了澳洲文坛上一声叫人难以忽略的清灵之音。(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：“充满了睿智，讽刺与大胆的创新与想象，在爱与痛的边缘，这些精致的小故事给我们带来了一股股不容小觑的冲击力。”---帕蒂•欧•瑞利
“时而苦涩，时而戏谑，却又时而严肃，欧奈尔作品中的讽刺力与感伤力总是被他驾驭的炉火纯青，恰到好处。"---凯特•肯尼迪
“Stories full of wit, irony, wild invention, love and pain — and sometimes shocking power.”--- Paddy O’Reilly
“By turns acerbic, playful and serious, O’Neill is equally at home with satire and pathos.”--- Cate Kennedy
版权已售Hebrew/Kinneret, USA/St Martin’s, UK/Old Street Publishing-周芸2013-5-23
About the Author/作者介绍： 雷恩•欧奈尔，1975年生于格拉斯哥，定居澳大利亚纽卡斯尔前曾居住在非洲，欧洲以及亚洲，目前与妻子育有两女。其作品曾刊登在《澳洲最佳小说精选》，《眠者年历》《meanjin》季刊，《新澳洲故事集》,《墨迹》《Etchings》和《西方》上，并荣获哈尔•波特奖和罗兰•罗宾森奖以及昆士兰首相斯梯尔•罗迪奖提名和年度短篇故事奖提名。现任教于纽卡索大学。Ryan O’Neill was born in Glasgow in 1975. He lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd Award and the Age Short-Story Prize. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.
Format:电子手稿
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