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此生, 你我皆短暫燦爛

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內容簡介 全球限量作者親簽版！「想要燦爛，首先你要被看見，被看見，就是容許自己成為獵物。」一封兒子寫給不識字的母親的信。史上最年輕艾略特獎得獎詩人王鷗行的首部小說。2019年權威媒體年度選書上榜最多的小說，獲頒麥克阿瑟天才獎。出版後驚豔國際文壇，並登上《紐約時報》暢銷排行榜。奧斯卡最佳影片「月光下的藍色男孩」製作公司即將改編搬上大銀幕。你是否記得一生中最悲傷的日子？在以生命經驗刻劃的美學書寫中，詩人王鷗行的文字能讓人即刻感受到哀傷與美。世間之物，恆河沙數，凝視獨樹一格：凝視某樣東西即是讓它充滿你的生命，無論多麼短暫。找到自己，勝過我畏懼活──我們自以為藝術是被內心感受觸動。到頭來，卻是期望別人找到我們。「小狗」年幼隨家人從越南移居美國，面對陌生的土地和陌生的語言，母親教導他維持低調隱形，以保安全。十多年過去，已成為作家的他某天被母親問到：「作家是幹什麼的？」於是他決定為不識字的母親寫一封信。信中款款回溯他與母親以及外婆三人相依為命的童年往事，他出生前的家族史，以及，他個人祕密的情感。「文學是最高最有靈性的藝術。最簡單的敘事形式，始於藝術家以自己為故事的中心。」——詹姆斯‧喬伊斯，《一個青年藝術家的畫像》詩人為孕育他的母親寫故事。然而，說起「玫瑰」的故事，需要語言、記憶與文字，唯一的方式，必須由兒子「小狗」成為故事的主角。一種班雅明式的祕密契約。只是在這個故事中，「我」不再如母親教導的保持低調隱形，生起了改變一切的決心。小狗說：「儘管我的人如字，在這世間毫無分量，卻依然負載我的生命。」▓英國詩壇最高榮譽 T. S. 艾略特獎得獎詩人──王鷗行「王鷗行是極具天賦的觀察者。」──《紐約時報》「美不可言，極具創意。」──《衛報》當代文壇最受矚目的青年詩人王鷗行，如詩的文字美得耀眼，具高度原創性，能即刻感受到哀傷與美。詩是創造，關於自我生命，如此詩性的語言書寫記憶，攻破了小說是虛構的心理防線，真實觸動心靈；若問詩人為何寫起小說，因為掌握語言和記憶才能揭露自我，本書因此被譽為近年來世界文壇中最重要的一部出道作品，若藝術的目的是期待世界找到自己，藝術就能超越生命限制，超越時間。在一眾高潮迭起、page-turner的暢銷書海中，王鷗行的小說罕見而珍貴。讀者透過小說的形式，感受到的是詩人內心真實的情感，彷彿有人真誠地向你述說生命中因失去而陷落的傷痛。書中重要的是傳遞情感與想像力，而非還原或控訴記憶，作者曾公開表示自己非常欣賞宮崎駿，尤其是像「龍貓」這樣的故事，不具製造衝突的意圖，而是藉由情感和想像力，打造一種倖存者的藝術。『我知道妳相信輪迴。我不知道自己相信否，但是我希望有。這樣，或許妳下輩子會回到這兒。或許妳會是個女孩，或許妳的名字也叫玫瑰，妳會有一房間的書，妳的父母會唸床邊故事給妳聽，你們生活在一個未被戰火肆虐的國家。或許在那個時空、那個生命、那個未來，妳會找到這本書，妳會得知妳我之間發生什麼。然後妳會記起我。或許。』最後一隻停駐在枝頭已經負載沉重幽靈的帝王斑蝶。記憶是人們生生世世的約定。我想念妳勝過我記得妳。這個正在書寫的身體一度屬於你，也就是我以兒子的身分書寫，如果幸運，句子結束處會是我們開始時。媽，讓我重來一遍。本中文書介出自《此生, 你我皆短暫燦爛》時報文化出版企業股份有限公司出版An instant New York Times Bestseller!Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN Hemingway Debut Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction!Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington PostPoet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.Named a Best Book of the Year by:GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ocean VuongOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Genius Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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