The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
十八篇小说11万字,最短一篇《死于星期天地震的法国艺术家》只有1千字左右,“黑暗吞噬前的八秒钟”记忆!翻译缘故?——我欣赏不来他的文笔。有点讨厌里面故作克制的伤感。主角都是内心戏丰富的人物,喜欢独自面对记忆、死亡(几乎每篇都有死人的,作者高兴还可以死得更多个)...
评分我知道,在过去的两个月里他一直在为这一天存钱。餐柜的下面放着一个存钱的酒瓶。如果米夏的厨房里传出瓶子打碎的声音,邻居们就会知道,有人又要过生日了。——《小鸟》 我希望我能相信,事情会发生总是有原因的。我想要相信这个,比任何事情都更想去相信,因为如果那只是一...
评分十八篇小说11万字,最短一篇《死于星期天地震的法国艺术家》只有1千字左右,“黑暗吞噬前的八秒钟”记忆!翻译缘故?——我欣赏不来他的文笔。有点讨厌里面故作克制的伤感。主角都是内心戏丰富的人物,喜欢独自面对记忆、死亡(几乎每篇都有死人的,作者高兴还可以死得更多个)...
评分据说布衣帅哥最喜欢写一些“濒于放弃的人”。 什么叫“濒于放弃的人”呢? 整本书就像是“濒于放弃的人”的自白书 充满了“濒于放弃的”句子,每当前半句句子中深沉的爱和后半句句子里刻骨的颓丧用一个假设或者转折词连起来的时候,我想:我就知道是这样。 “我几乎已经不记...
评分《纽约时报》:“无可救药的浪漫主义者们将会享受西蒙•范•布伊温柔、莫泊桑式的寓言……” 中间有几个故事读哭了,但我自己知道,作为一个心思敏感,爱女逾宝的人,但凡读到小孩子失去母亲,或父母失去孩子的故事,都会掉眼泪。 《黑暗中的绽放》里面充满了这种故事,...
Love comes in a good variety.
评分每一篇都值得细品再三的短篇小说集。
评分情感描写的这么细腻。
评分Where They Hide is a Mystery.
评分作者拥有细致入微的观察力和广阔无边的想象力,要是我能写出一个如此灵动的句子就好了!
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