THE PAPER MAN

Book ID/图书代码： 04940014B73969

English Summary/英文概要： In a strange seaside city on the verge of revolution, a young man made of paper climbs out of a crashed bus and into his new life. He is called Michael, and since the procedure that transformed him from a regular boy into one made of paper, he has been living the isolated existence of a freak inside his family’s Inland home. Escape is Michael’s only hope, and the City offers art, adventure and possibility for everyone, even somebody as strange and different as Michael.

Things take a surprising turn when Michael’s cruel high school sweetheart Mischa suddenly reappears in his life, the only person who remembers him as a normal boy. Torn by his friendship to Maiko, the woman who saved him from dissolving in a sudden rain storm after he first arrived in the City, and Mischa’s decadent art world, Michael follows his impulses. But it is the artist David Doppelmann that ultimately captures Michael’s heart, and as he strives for more from his new life in the anarchic city, the paper man begins another dangerous transformation, one that will either lead to his resurrection as a human being, or destroy him and everyone he cares about.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 革命前夕，在一座奇怪的海滨城市里，年轻的纸人从一辆车祸的公交车窗里攀爬而出，迎来了他的新生活。他的名字叫做迈克尔，自从程序将他从一名正常的男孩变成了一名纸人，他在家中便一直过着孤独的怪胎生活，遭到家人们的孤立与冷遇。逃离是迈克尔唯一的希望，而“城市”更是能够为所有人提供艺术、冒险以及各种各样的可能性，即便是像迈克尔这样的怪人。然而当迈克尔有些残暴的高中甜心米莎，同时也是他对于自己正常时期人事的唯一记忆，突然间重新出现在他的生活里，一切开始急速的运转与变化。舞妓是他初次来到“城市”时救下的女子，当时一场突降的暴雨差点将舞妓溶化，然而正是他与舞妓之间的友谊以及迈克尔随性所追随的米莎颓废的艺术世界让他感到自己仿佛就快四分五裂，支离破碎。然而最终俘获了迈克尔真心的却是艺术家大卫•多波梅恩，并且正当他在这座没有秩序束缚的城市里努力地追寻着全新的生活时，纸人又开始了他的另一次危险可怕的变形之旅，这次变形要么让他获得重生，重回人形，否则便是摧毁他自身以及所有他所关心的人们。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：“THE PAPER MAN is one of the most inspiring and original books I’ve read in years. Gallagher Lawson has written a lustrous fable comprised of loneliness, blood, and love. The Wizard of Oz on laudanum, a Bjork musical in letters, this devastatingly powerful debut challenges us to imagine what it would be like to be made of nothing more than paper, to live in a world where mermaids are murdered and art is the only path to actualization, a world, in many ways, not unlike our fragile own.”—Samuel Sattin, author of League of Somebodies and the forthcoming The Silent End

Praise for The Paper Man

“Beautifully written and finely wrought, this novel is a surreal coming-of-age story that considers the boundaries between art and life….[A] strange and brilliant debut novel.”—Publishers Weekly

“Part Frankenstein, part Pinocchio, attracting comparisons to Kafka’s Metamorphosis…

The Paper Man] is a compelling story that sticks with the reader, examining art and its creation from a dizzying variety of angles and raising fascinating questions about ownership, celebrity, autonomy, the limits of self, and the essence of our humanity.”—Nancy McCabe

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“This bizarre, compelling debut combines the darkness and political intrigue of Kafka with the eerie hyperrealism of a Magritte painting. Michael, the Paper Man, is a highly unconventional and persuasive hero, and David Doppelman among the strangest—arch nemeses? father figures? manifestations of the self?—I’ve ever seen in a novel. Gallagher Lawson is a weird and wonderful writer.”—J. Robert Lennon, author of FAMILIAR and SEE YOU IN PARADISE

“Gallagher Lawson belongs to the new wave of writers using fantastical elements to mine deeper into realist territory. A strong debut from a promising writer of agile talents.” – Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes and Crystal Eaters

“Only in the purity of paper, in its essence of nothingness, is it possible to create a truly literary character.”—Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty Salon and Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction

About the Author/作者介绍： 加林格•罗森是U.C. Riverside’s Palm Desert 美学硕士项目的一名毕业生。他一直从事着旅行作家和技术作家的事业，并能够演奏古典钢琴。作者现居洛杉矶。

Gallagher Lawson is a graduate of U.C. Riverside’s Palm Desert M.F.A. program. He has worked as a travel writer and technical writer, and plays classical piano. He lives in Los Angeles.

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