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The Original Daughter

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內容簡介 「精準、層次豐富且感人至深，The Original Daughter是一本絕對不能錯過的小說。」——《紐約時報書評》新加坡新人作家魏信子（Jemimah Wei）處女作，一部關於家庭關係如何建立與崩解的故事，一段關於野心與姊妹情誼的成長旅程。在Arin出現之前， Genevieve一直是獨生女。她與父母和祖母一同擠在新加坡工薪階層社區的一間小房內過日子。Arin是家人不願多談的存在，是她原以為早已過世的祖父遺留下的孩子。Arin的出現讓Genevieve多了一個突如其來的妹妹。隨著姐妹倆日漸親密，她們也必須共同面對一個競爭激烈、對成就有著無盡要求的社會環境。在這個凡事唯有犧牲才能換得機會的世界裡，她們選擇遠離友情、休息，和青少女該有的正常社交生活，只為追求學術上的完美，和一條通往更好未來的道路。然而，一場刺痛人心的背叛使兩人決裂、徹底分離。Genevieve開始重新思考：野心與家庭之愛哪個更重要？該選擇留在熟悉的家，還是走向外面的世界？究竟應該忠於塑造自己的人，還是忠於真正的自己？ The Original Daughter是一部描寫家庭與現代化社會急速變遷下抗爭與選擇的動人小說。魏信子以清澈的情感描寫與犀利的社會觀察，交出一部令人驚豔的文學處女作。In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a place where the urgent insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. Knowing that failure is not an option, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another as they spurn outside friendships, leisure, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future.When a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love, home versus the outside world, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is. In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing, winner-take-all world, The Original Daughter is a major literary debut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Jemimah WeiJemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore, and is currently a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from Columbia University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Singapore’s National Arts Council, and more. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been published in Guernica, Narrative, and Nimrod, among other publications. She was recently named one of Narrative’s “30 below 30” writers, recognized by the Best of the Net Anthologies, and is a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. For close to a decade, prior to moving to the US to earn an MFA at Columbia University where she was a Felipe P. De Alba Fellow, she worked as a host for various broadcast and digital channels, and has written and produced short films and travel guides for brands like Laneige, Airbnb, and Nikon.

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