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My Heavenly Favourite

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內容簡介 2020年布克國際獎最年輕獲獎得主‧《無法平靜的夜晚》作者Lucas Rijneveld和荷蘭語譯者Michele Hutchison再度合作。「我是小鳥、水獺和青蛙，只有當別人不問我的時候，我才知道自己是什麼。」故事敘述者是一個被警察機關逮捕的49歲獸醫，讀者在他的娓娓道來自白中，才能慢慢理出全貌...在青少年時期，他曾和母親發生過性關係，亂倫的罪惡感導致他內心受創，這樣的創傷延續到成人，發現未成年孩童會為他帶來強烈的性吸引力。2005年，他來到荷蘭鄉下的農村，替一個農夫家的牛群治療時，卻被農夫年僅14歲的女兒深深吸引，這名14歲的少女，母親離家出走，哥哥早逝，僅剩對她無暇關注的父親、枯燥的農村生活和她每天唯一的談話對象：動物。獸醫稱她是“My Heavenly Favortie”，在敘述中，他以第二人稱you稱呼少女，描述自己如何受到吸引，讓他的視線無時無刻追著女孩的身影，想穿透女孩的世界，最終穿透女孩的身體，少女剛開始享受有人關注的虛榮感，直到她發現獸醫對她有肉體的欲望，她開始用自己的方式掙扎、試圖躲避...故事中使用大量的動物形象做為比喻和隱喻，描繪少女身處的環境與複雜的心理變化，以及獸醫一步步接近她、宛如獵人捕抓獵物的經過。作者巧妙地結合當時風行於歐洲社會的英美90年代流行文化，大量的流行歌與影視娛樂，為受基督教文化影響深遠的保守歐洲農村帶來強大衝擊，少女在聖經與基本教義的薰陶下成長，但她內心渴望自由與「成為大人」，失去學習效仿對像(母親)的少女，只能在動物身上尋找模範；同時，青少年時期對性的懵懂、憧憬與好奇，也讓獸醫藉此靠近少女，最終迎來令人無奈且驚愕的結局。這是一部仿若向納博科夫《蘿莉塔》致敬的作品，但作者使用時而細膩婉轉、時而赤裸淋漓的筆觸，一字字捕捉出人性裡的最深層的幽暗、渴望與失落。The electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winner of the International Booker Prize.In the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter - his 'favourite' - as he tends her father's cows. This deeply troubled soul is our narrator: a man who believes he offers the object of his love a tantalizing path out of the constrictions of her conservative rural life, a chance to escape to a world of fantasy. But the obsessive reliance he cultivates builds into a terrifying trap, with a crime and confession at the heart of it that threatens to rip their small community apart.An unflinching excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favourite is a torrent of grief and obsession. The remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening, this profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page.Translated by Michele Hutchison

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各界推薦 It's been a long time since a book has destroyed me like this . . . Rijneveld's genius for minute attention to the granular detail of pain, desire, fantasy and transgression doesn't allow for any comfortable distance . . . You're right there in it. And in Hutchison's electrifying translation it is genuinely disturbing. Rijneveld is one of the boldest writers alive today. -- Max PorterHere lies writing that is rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line. How lucky we are to be the readers of Rijneveld's work. -- Daisy JohnsonA novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry. Rijneveld writes with peerless moral courage and a sheer delight in the abject that we must each face in ourselves. This book unsettled me even as it made me laugh and gasp. I'm in awe. -- Brandon TaylorDaring, immediate and insistent ... A profound imagining of abuse and its ramifications. This is fiction that balances darkness and purity, deceit and reality, depravity and lyricism. A quaking, visceral novel that demands the reader look wickedness in the eye - not for shock alone, but to provoke a genuine examination of what it is to harm and transgress. -- Rebecca Watson

作者介紹

作者介紹 Lucas RijneveldLucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection, Calf's Caul,was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, The Discomfort of Evening,which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.Michele HutchisonMichele Hutchison was born in the UK and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. After a period working as an editor, she became a literary translator from Dutch, and recently translated Lucas Rijneveld's The Discomfort of Evening which won the Booker International Prize 2020.

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