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The Friend

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內容簡介 美國國家圖書獎2018得獎小說！ Normal 0 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-TW X-NONE * Style Definitions * table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:表格內文; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}2018年美國國家圖書獎得主紐約時報評選2018年最值得關注書籍「這是一部非常美麗的作品，剖析充滿死亡、哀痛、藝術和愛的世界。」─《華爾街日報》探討愛情、友情、自我療癒，以及女人與狗兒之間深厚的情感女主角毫無預警的失去她的畢生好友兼導師，卻因此意外背負一個她不想接下的任務，照顧朋友留下的大丹狗。隨著她心中的悲痛越演越烈，而狗兒也以靜默的方式承受主人無故消失的苦痛。哀傷席捲而來，又有更大的危機來襲─被驅趕出住所，因為公寓禁止養狗。當親友擔心她因為傷痛而胡思亂想，她卻拒絕與狗兒分開，她將自己與世界隔離，日益執著於照顧狗兒，甚至下定決心要讀懂狗兒的想法與心情，沉溺於哀痛的狗與人，相互舔舐傷口也相互救贖彼此。FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence." –The New York Times Book Review"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR"[A] sneaky gut punch of a novel...a consummate example of the human-animal tale." —Harper's MagazineA moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Sigrid NunezSigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, and For Rouenna, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Nunez lives in New York City.

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