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內容簡介 喜愛文學的讀者必收藏收錄眾多經典文學作家如楚門‧卡波提、卡爾維諾、安潔拉‧卡特等，關於聖誕節的短篇故事。聖誕節故事精選集！匯集最偉大的短篇小說作家筆下的聖誕節故事：Truman Capote在阿拉巴馬州製作威士忌浸泡過的水果蛋糕；Laurie Lee滑過格洛斯特郡冰凍的池塘；雪莉·傑克遜在銀行被狡猾的聖誕老人打敗了，Muriel Spark 和 Elizabeth Bowen 的聖誕節常有鬼魂出沒，陀思妥耶夫斯基、Daphne du Maurier 和 Italo Calvino 則對這個季節有著憤世嫉俗的看法；而Selma Lagerlof 和 Angela Carter則慶祝它的奇蹟！從科克到拉各斯再到狂野西部，從巴黎聖保羅再到外太空，來看看有史以來一些最偉大的短篇小說作家所想像的聖誕節！Truman Capote makes whiskey-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time."
