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Elsewhere

內容簡介

內容簡介 How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'In her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and ancient, real and surreal, the stories in Elsewhere range from China to Dublin to London and Stockholm.From a group of writers lounging on the edge of a disaster zone to a mandarin ostracised from his old court trying to avoid assassination, and from a woman who inexplicably loses her voice to a couple who meet all too fleetingly at a cinema in Dublin, these are strange and beguiling stories of dispossession, longing and the diasporic experience.

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各界推薦 Spans continents and centuries in its depictions of displacement ... [Ge] delicately renders both the linguistic and physical manifestations of longing.' ― The New Yorker'An incredibly varied collection of high-risk, high-impact stories. . . written in exacting prose and also great fun.' -- Anne Enright ― Guardian, 'Summer books''Impressive. . . Elsewhere is a collection of depth and dimension. . . Ge's work has been translated into a number of languages and it's easy to see why. Whether she's concocting surreal tales of immigrants in New York or giving a painstakingly vivid account of a writer and new mother pumping her breastmilk at a literary festival in Stockholm, there is a universality and perspicacity to her writing, an understanding of what matters.' ― Irish Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 Yan GeYan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English who has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer), and was named by People's Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into English, French and German, among other languages. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia where she was the recipient of the UEA International Award 2018 19. She lives in Norwich.

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最佳賣點 : 華裔作家嚴歌首部作品‧橫跨時空與年代的短篇小說集，探索語言的疏離與連結