She Made Herself a Monster

She Made Herself a Monster

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2026/02/09
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受斯拉夫民俗傳說啟發,《她將自己化為怪物》(She Made Herself a Monster,暫譯)巧妙融合了巫術、鬼故事、異端學說與騙局,編織出一則關於女性自主權與集體行動力量的女性主義寓言。這是一個憂傷、驚悚,卻又能在情感上獲得巨大宣洩的故事,描述兩名女性為了掌握命運,將不惜一切代價。

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一部氣氛濃郁、色調陰鬱的哥德式處女作瑰寶:在十九世紀的保加利亞,一名自稱吸血鬼獵人——實則為巡迴騙徒——的女子,與一名少女聯手打造出一個足以擊潰她們內心惡魔的致命怪物。

我們創造怪物,是為了摧毀它們。千百年來,我們指認女巫並將其焚燒,懷疑惡魔並對其驅魔。當莊稼枯萎、孩童病倒,還有誰比「怪物」更適合當代罪羔羊?

雅娜(Yana)騎著馬在一個又一個荒涼的小鎮間穿梭,趁著村民熟睡時佈置慘不忍睹的現場:廣場上的動物屍體、雞舍裡灌滿鮮血的蛋。她向受驚的村民講述黑夜中徘徊的吸血鬼故事。接著,她出手消除威脅,並在離去之際撒下希望的種子。

名為科普里夫齊(Koprivci)的村莊正遭受罕見的疾病與厄運侵襲,當地的孩童鮮少能存活長大。在那裡,雅娜遇見了安卡(Anka):一名被村民視為咒語源頭的倔強孤女。隨著安卡即將成年,村長正違背她的意願、圖謀將她強娶為妻。安卡對此無能為力——直到雅娜出現。這名孤女與吸血鬼獵人共同策劃了一個計謀:她們要幻化出一個邪惡至極的怪物,好掩護安卡逃跑。然而,她們的計畫很快便產生了令人毛骨悚然的變數,逐漸脫離掌控……

受斯拉夫民俗傳說啟發,《她將自己化為怪物》(She Made Herself a Monster)巧妙融合了巫術、鬼故事、異端學說與騙局,編織出一則關於女性自主權與集體行動力量的女性主義寓言。這是一個憂傷且令人驚嘆、能讓情感獲得宣洩的故事,描述兩名女性為了掌握命運,將不惜一切代價。


A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster deadly enough to vanquish their own demons. 

We make monsters in order to destroy them. For thousands of years, we’ve named witches and burned them, suspected demons and exorcised them. When crops die and children fall ill, who better to blame than a monster?

Yana rides from one desolate town to the next, staging grisly displays while the villagers sleep: animal corpses in the public square, eggs filled with blood in the chicken coop. She tells the stricken villagers stories of vampires that stalk the night. Then she eliminates the threat, and sows seeds of hope in her wake.

The village Koprivci is plagued by exceptional illness and misfortune, its children rarely surviving infancy. There, Yana meets Anka: a headstrong orphan who the villagers blame for their curse. As Anka approaches womanhood, the village Captain is grooming her for marriage against her will. Anka is powerless against him—that is, until Yana arrives. Together, the orphan and the vampire slayer hatch a plan: to conjure a monster so vile, it might provide cover for Anka to escape. But their plan quickly takes on a horrifying life of its own...

Inspired by Slavic folklore, She Made Herself a Monster concocts a clever mix of witchery, ghost stories, heresy, and deception to spin a feminist fable about agency and the power of collective action. It is a haunting and astoundingly cathartic tale of two women who will stop at nothing to take control of their fate. 

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作者介紹

Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. She Made Herself a Monster was completed while Anna was in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition; her short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading and has appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review.

規格

誠品貨碼 / 2683081831008
ISBN13 / 9780063436374
ISBN10 /
EAN貨碼 / 9780063436374
頁數 / 288
裝訂 / H:精裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 5.98 x 1.57 x 9.02 inches
級別 / N:無
提供維修 / 無

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