THE GIVEN WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 04332813B65834
English Summary/英文概要： THE GIVEN WORLD tells the story of Riley, who leaves her family’s Montana farm in search of her beloved brother who never returned from Vietnam. She travels to San Francisco, then on to Vietnam and back, encountering along the way unique and inventive characters such as Primo, a Vietnam vet with one good eye and a heroin habit; Cole, a love-struck orphan and Elvis lookalike; Phuong, a Saigon waitress and Riley’s best friend there; and Grace, a banjo-playing girl on a train with her grandmother’s ashes in a box. Marian has a great ear for dialogue and her characters are all defining: brave and heartbreaking. But it’s Riley’s own story that resonated most with me - her big heart, her edgy and impassioned observations and her hopefulness for her family that made me fall in love with THE GIVEN WORLD. I hope you enjoy as much as I did and agree with Jonis Agee that "THE GIVEN WORLD deserves a place on the shelf beside the pantheon of extraordinary war novels of our time."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《赠予的世界》讲述了莱利的故事，她离开蒙大拿农场的家去寻找再也没有从越南回来的亲爱的哥哥。她前往旧金山，然后到越南再回来，一路上遇到了很多独特和创造性的人物，比如普里莫，一个越战老兵，只有一只眼睛是好的，并且吸食海洛因；科尔，一个外形和猫王相似充满爱心的孤儿；芳，西贡的女服务员，是莱利在那里最好的朋友；格蕾丝，一个弹奏班卓琴的女孩，带着奶奶的骨灰踏上了火车。玛丽安在对话上有很多的技巧，她笔下的人物都定义成勇敢和令人心碎的。但是莱利自己的故事是最能与我产生共鸣的——她的勇敢的心，她的前卫和充满激情的观察，以及她对家人的希望让我爱上了《赠予的世界》。希望你和我一样享受这本书，我非常同意阿吉所说的“《赠予的世界》值得摆放在书架上，它是我们这个时代非凡的战争小说”。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：《赠予的世界》的背景设置在蒙大拿州的中北部和西部，旧金山和西贡，讲述的是莱利的故事，当哥哥，老师和最好的朋友米克都失踪之后，她的世界被摧毁了。她是七十年代的野孩子：十五岁的时候吃迷幻药，十七岁的时候就怀孕了，十八岁的时候独自一人上路了，去往不知名的地方。她在旧金山上岸，在那里她是救援者也是被救者，成了一群受灾者的天使。她送报纸，待在同性恋酒吧，扮演司机送最好的朋友治病。越南是他哥哥最后一次出现的地方，于是她去那里寻找他的踪迹，或者他的鬼魂。在那里，她发现了流浪者和难民，他们教她如何在池子里玩斯诺克，如何使用AK-47手枪，喝蛇酒以及烧东西。她回到了美国，不过是一个陌生的地方，无论如何她必须找到回家的路。Set in north-central and western Montana, San Francisco and Saigon, THE GIVEN WORLD is the story of Riley, whose world is shattered when her brother, teacher, best friend Mick goes missing. She is a child of the seventies, and wild: high on mescaline at fifteen, pregnant at seventeen, on the road, alone, by eighteen, to god-only-knows-where. She lands in San Francisco, where she is rescuer and rescued, for and by a band of scarred angels. She delivers newspapers, tends bar in a lesbian dive, plays chauffeur for a dope-sick best friend needing a fix. Because it is the place her brother was last seen, she goes to Vietnam to look for traces of him, or his ghost. There she finds a new cohort of wanderers and refugees, who teach her how to snooker at pool, shoot an AK-47, drink snake wine and burn things down. She returns to America, now an alien place, where she has to figure out how to navigate a way home, wherever, or whatever, that may be.
THE GIVEN WORLD by Marian Palaia (published last May by S&S) is on the longlist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (see full list here)
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.
Buzz is building for Marian Palaia’s THE GIVEN WORLD (Simon & Schuster, April 2015)!
**THE GIVEN WORLD is a Barnes & Noble Discovery Pick for Summer 2015**
**Indie Next List selection for May 2015**
People Magazine “Picks” review scheduled for 4/27 (on stands 4/16)
About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽安•帕拉亚在旧金山，加利福尼亚州和蒙大拿州，米苏拉之间来回奔波。她是威斯康星州麦迪逊大学硕士课程的毕业生，在学校她还获得了2012年的Milofsky奖。她是圣何塞州立大学2012-2013年的约翰•斯坦贝克研究员，并且最近获得了伊丽莎白乔治基金会奖学金。她的作品最近发表在《弗吉尼亚季度回顾》(http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2012/fall/palaia-chi/)和《三季度》(http://www.triquarterly.org/fiction/last-place-she-stood)上。
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