LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO

Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B56962

English Summary/英文概要： Leave Before You Go is about Daniel, who escapes the grind of his London life to find himself alone, penniless and paranoid on the other side of the world. And it is about Kate, who lives in Auckland, where she works as an usherette. It is a merciless and witty examination of a generation cut adrift: what do people do when they don’t know what they want to do? ’Perkins captures brilliantly the often brutal vicissitudes of modern love - the agonies of flirting, flings, betrayal, sex . . . a gifted writer, with an idiosyncratic, clear-eyed take on life’ Harpers & Queen ’Remarkable how accomplished some first novels can be. Perkins’ debut demonstrates the same light touch that made her short-story collection a winner. Her characters fall in and out of love and work; occasionally, they wonder what life is all about. They are entirely credible’ Independent

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《Leave Before You Go》是關於丹尼爾的故事，他剛擺脫倫敦枯燥的生活，獨自來到世界的另一端，身無分文，偏執懷疑…… 這也是關於卡特的故事。她住在奧克蘭，做引座員為生…… 他們的故事反應出對斷層的兩代人無情和睿智的考察。當人們不知道自己想做什麼時，他們該怎麼辦？(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况：“Perkins巧妙地抓住了現代愛情無情的起伏，變卦，調情、及時行樂、背叛和性愛的痛苦。Perkins是為有才華的作家，對生活有種與眾不同的觀察。很難想像這麼棒的書是新人新作！Perkins的首本短篇小說集就讓她成為贏家。人物們在愛情中尋尋覓覓，有時還會對生活的本質提出疑問。他們都非常真實。”——《獨立報》

About the Author/作者介绍： Emily Perkins的第一本作品集《NOT HER REAL NAME AND OTHER STORIES》獲得英國傑佛瑞•費伯紀念獎、新西蘭蒙大拿新人首本小說獎。1997年，她編撰了《THE PICNIC VIRGIN》新西蘭新型文學詩集。艾米麗的小說《LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO》《THE NEW GIRL》《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》已經熱銷國際各國。《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》榮獲2009年美國信徒圖書獎和新西蘭書展蒙大拿小說獎章。

Emily Perkins captures perfectly the intense world of love, art and waitressing in this debut collection of short stories. She brings modern life into harsh and comic focus with a cinematic vision for character and dialogue and a cast of young and painfully vulnerable metropolitans. ’A stunning first collection: addictive, smart, scary, wise and profoundly funny. Perkins has the enviable Alice Munro knack of crafting tiny stories with the scope of novels, characters who convince within a paragraph, dialogue which stings with its unresolved sadness and comfortless truths’ Julie Myerson

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