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Small Rain

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內容簡介 ★Kirkus Review★Publishers Weekly星級好評英國圖書新人獎作家Garth Greenwell 新作，將一場兇猛的疾病轉化為對愛與生命活力的冥想一位詩人的生活被突如期來的劇痛顛覆。他被疼痛壓倒，最終進入重症監護室。躺在病床上，陷入失能的美國醫療體系中，他努力理解自己身體上發生的事情，這對於一個多年以來活在思想中的人來說，尤為困難。這是一部探索人類邊緣經驗的小說，鮮明呈現藝術、記憶、詩歌、音樂、關懷等這些賦予生命價值的力量。時間在擴張與收縮之間交替，突如其來的親密關係悄然綻放。《小雨》超越了醫院的禁錮，描繪出人類共同的脆弱、同情的界限與可能，藝術的理想以及脆弱的美國夢。最重要的，這是一個最令人意外的愛情故事。A medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value – art, memory, poetry, music, care – are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.

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各界推薦 Tantalizing... Greenwell – such a finely tuned, generous writer – transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewVirtuosic... cathartic and unforgettable. It’s a luminous departure from Greenwell’s spare and erotic earlier work -- Publishers Weekly, starred reviewSmall Rain is a marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true. Garth Greenwell’s sensibility is rich and generous – the narrator's memories are haunting, and his experiences of both illness and love are deeply affecting. You are in the room with him. This is a true achievement, written with engaged humanity and a great command of style. -- Colm Tóibín, author of Long IslandI’ve never read anything that so vividly captures the helplessness of a hospital stay. Greenwell weaves moments of clear-eyed misanthropy into a novel that is fundamentally about the beauty of life. Small Rain is claustrophobic, terrifying, soaringly philosophic. It will make you notice that you are alive, which is maybe the most important thing a book can do. -- Alice Winn, author of In MemoriamGreenwell writes tenderly about what it is to be subject to the crises of the body. Small Rain is a document of searching, an interrogation of love, care, and time, daring in its refusal to be abstract about the concrete facts of life and death. -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster

作者介紹

作者介紹 Garth Greenwell Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City.

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