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发表于2024-11-10
Severance pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Born in Sanming, China, Ling grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught. Currently, she serve as an assistant professor at her alma mater, University of Chicago.
末世氛圍的建構有想象力,語言也有功力,核心還是有點陳舊的移民身份認同
評分末世病毒的侵襲 不如看到過於熟悉的坐標下城市衰敗崩塌心悸 果然是生活化的場景最有衝擊力 - To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?
評分又一部令人難忘的debut!移民敘述、末世故事和消費焦慮這三個點都寫得戳中人心。
評分風趣幽默,節奏也蠻舒服;對末世的想象力實際上還蠻匱乏的,但是也是這樣纔讓人驚醒,我們在日常生活裏消費主義主導下的種種麻木錶現,和末日喪屍比起來又高明在哪裏
評分打開本書的時候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之後讀完覺得自己也成瞭一個fevered 在自己製定的routine裏打圈圈,覺得厭煩但又無法逃脫
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Severance pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024