ISBN号:9780374605995
书名:If I Survive You
作者:Jonathan Escoffery
出版日期:出版日期信息缺失
英文简介:
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION.
Finalist for the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award and the Southern Book Award.
Nominated for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2023 Pen/Jean Stein Open Book Award, the 2023 Pen/Bingham Prize, the 2022 Story Prize, the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize, and the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
National Bestseller.
IndieNext Pick.
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2022.
“If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level.
” –Ann Patchett A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston.
But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land.
Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay.
But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what the younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.
” Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck.
After a fight with Topper, Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs.
Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin Cukie looks for a father who doesn’t want to be found.
As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.
Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery’s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness.
With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.
中文简介:
2023 年布克奖入围者。
入围 2022 年国家图书奖小说奖。
入围 2023 年笔/福克纳奖和南方图书奖。
提名 2022 年国家书评家协会约翰·伦纳德奖、2023 年笔/让·斯坦开放图书奖、2023 年笔/宾厄姆奖、2022 年故事奖、2023 年卡内基杰出小说奖、2023 年布鲁克林图书馆奖和2023 年阿斯本文字文学奖。
全国畅销书。
IndieNext 选择。
《纽约时报书评》2022 年 100 部著名书籍之一。
“《如果我能活过你》是一本相互关联的短篇故事集,读起来像小说,读起来像现实生活,读起来像最高水平的小说。
” ——安·帕切特 这是一部充满风格和内心的重要处女作,讲述了一个牙买加家庭在迈阿密奋斗的故事,并介绍了一位世代相传的故事讲述者。
20 世纪 70 年代,政治暴力席卷了他们的家乡金斯敦,托珀和桑亚逃到了迈阿密。
但正如这对夫妇和他们的两个孩子了解到的那样,美国距离应许之地还很远。
作为黑人移民,这个家庭被排除在社会之外,在安德鲁飓风和后来的 2008 年经济衰退中继续前行,住在一所被诅咒的房子里,宠物鱼从自己的鱼缸里跳出来,而不是留下来。
但即使事情分崩离析,这个家庭仍然被小儿子特里劳尼所说的“强烈的、折磨人的生存冲动”所激励,但往往对自己不利。
乔纳森·埃斯科弗里 (Jonathan Escoffery) 的《如果我还活着》中的故事情节巧妙地用心和幽默构建,以特里劳尼 (Trelawny) 为中心,讲述他在金融灾难、种族主义和彻头彻尾的厄运中努力为自己开辟一席之地的故事。
与托珀打架后,特里劳尼通过一系列奇怪且常常搞笑的工作摆脱了无家可归的困境。
与此同时,他的兄弟德拉诺(Delano)试图抢夺他的孩子,这是灾难性的,而他的表弟库基(Cukie)则在寻找一位不想被发现的父亲。
当每个角色寻找立足点时,他们永远不会忘记在没有安全网的情况下攀登的巨大危险。
埃斯科弗里的处女作充满活力的抒情和独特的风格、狡猾的评论和富有感染力的笑声,揭示了在一个受资本主义和白人摆布的世界中,在家庭和文化之间意味着什么。
在《如果我能活过你》中,埃斯科弗里宣称自己是一位出色的故事讲述者,记录了美国最可怕和最充满希望的生活。
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书籍单词数在5万至10万之间,难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
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托福单词出现33032个/次,
SAT单词出现2837个/次,
GRE单词出现6380个/次,考研单词出现61698个/次,
雅思单词出现13816个/次。
高中单词出现58923个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库,不排除词库存在误差,仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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