ISBN号:9780802160508
书名: Man of Two Faces
作者:Viet Thanh Nguyen
出版日期:2023.10
英文简介:
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life.
He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.
At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees.
After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José.
But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM.
One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun.
Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind.
And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening.
Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.
中文简介:
入围国家图书奖 这部由普利策奖获得者《同情者》作者撰写的高度原创、精彩且非传统的回忆录，现已在全球售出超过 100 万册。
《两张面孔》阮越清回顾了自己的生活。
他扩展了个人回忆录的类型，承认难民、殖民以及关于越南和美国的想法等更大的故事，用他标志性的讽刺智慧和深刻的分析，以及对他作为父亲和儿子的生活的深刻情感开放来写作。
四岁时，Nguyen 和他的家人被迫逃离家乡 Ban Mê Thuột，以难民身份来到美国。
在与兄弟和父母分开并与自己的家庭住在一起后，阮后来获准在圣何塞郊区的自己的家人中定居。
但在他所谓的“美国”的阳光明媚的外表背后却隐藏着暴力。
一个圣诞夜，阮九岁，在家看动画片时，他得知父母在西贡梅伊杂货店工作时被枪杀，他有时会在那里用贴纸枪帮助给水果罐头定价。
多年后，在青少年时期，《现代启示录》等越南战争电影中的惊心动魄的剧情让阮陷入了生存危机：他怎么可能既是美国人又是越南人，既是凶手又是被杀者？当他得知一名被收养的妹妹留在越南并最终去看望她时，他逐渐明白了他的父母留下了多少东西。
随着父母年事已高，他越来越担心他们的舒适和照顾，并意识到他们的一些旧伤口正在重新开放。
《一张两张脸的人》情感深刻，对文化力量的思考精彩，探讨了遗忘和记忆的必要性、美国如此轻易做出和违背的承诺，以及最具原创性和最重要的人物之一的非凡人生故事。
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