WATCH HOW WE WALK: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 00110914B75154
English Summary/英文概要： Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove traces one family’s splintering belief system, their isolation and the erosion of their relationships.As Emily becomes closer to her closeted uncle Tyler, she begins to challenge her upbringing. The questions she has about the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ isolationist lifestyle, rigid codes of conduct and tenets of their faith also haunt her sister Lenora. Alternating between Emily’s life as a small town child and her adult life in the city, the narrative offers a haunting, cutting exploration of the practise and practical impact of “disfellowshipping,” proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as the Jehovah’s Witness attitude toward the “worldlings” outside of their faith. When Emily’s older sister disappears, everything changes. Emily becomes obsessed with taking on her sister’s identity, believing that she is controlling her actions. Ultimately, she finds release through self-mutilation. Sparse, vivid, menacingly suspenseful and darkly humorous, Watch How We Walk simultaneously engages on emotional, visceral and intellectual levels.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《我们的步履》来自珍妮弗•拉夫格鲁夫，该故事跟踪记录了有关于一个家庭信仰体系的崩塌，家庭成员之间的隔阂产生以及其成员间关系的不断腐化。当艾米丽开始与自己的叔叔泰勒走近，她开始挑战和反抗自己的父母。她对于“耶和华的见证者”们所过的那种与世隔绝的生活方式，严苛的行为准则和信条深感困惑，而同样的问题也困扰着她的姐姐雷诺拉。在艾米丽作为小镇孩童的生活和作为都市成人的生活之间，本书的叙述了“赶出教会”、改变宗教信仰、文化禁欲、以及“耶和华的见证者们”对其信仰之外的“世俗”的观点和看法，并对其的实施与其产生的影响进行了执着而深入的探究。然而当艾米丽的姐姐失踪了以后，一切都发生了变化。艾米丽开始痴迷于借用自己姐姐的身份，坚信自己的姐姐正在暗中控制着她的行为。最终，她从自残中感到释放。罕见、生动、充满威胁性的悬念以及黑暗的幽默，这便是《我们的步履》，除此以外它还同时让读者们受到来自情感、内心和智力等多层面的冲击。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“《我们的步履》是一部颇具思想，精心创作的首部小说作品，令人印象深刻，可以说该书是我2013年最爱的一部作品。” — 《全球邮报》
"在这部小说作品中，有着极度华丽的文风，同时其第一人称叙述的章节也是十分地引人入胜。" —《出版家周刊》
“Watch How We Walk is a thoughtful, well-crafted and impressive debut, and one of my favourite reads of 2013.” — Globe and Mail
"There’s blisteringly gorgeous prose in the novel, and the first-person chapters are riveting." —Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： 詹妮弗•拉夫格鲁夫是一名作家，著有诗歌集“The Dagger Between Her Teeth”(ECW出版社) 和“ I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel” (ECW 出版社)。其作品被广泛刊登在各大报刊杂志上，其近作被刊登在了Ryga: A Journal of Provocations, THIS Magazine, 及Taddle Creek等上。诗歌杂志Arc 曾于2013年上半年发表了其诗歌作品。2010年作者曾获K•M•亨特艺术奖文学奖部分提名。更多作者信息，请访问网站jenniferlovegrove.com。Jennifer LoveGrove is the author of poetry collections The Dagger Between Her Teeth (ECW Press) and I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel (ECW Press). Her writing has been published widely,most recently in Ryga: A Journal of Provocations, THIS Magazine, and Taddle Creek. Arc Poetry Magazine is publishing her poetry in early 2013. In 2010, she was shortlisted for the K. M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature.She can be found online at jenniferlovegrove.com.
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