NATHAN HILL's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.
发表于2025-02-25
The Nix 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
小的时候,我们总以为自己很特别,等时间推着年轮慢慢往前走,我们认识了世界,认识了社会,明白自己不过是芸芸众生里的一员,像大海里的一滴水,以自己的方式助推潮起潮落,也像沙漠里的一粒沙,在自己的角落里露宿餐风。 经年累月,一滴水也许被浪花挥洒成照片里绝美的风景,...
评分《水妖》是一部很难用一句话概括的小说,如果一定要说它有一个外在线索的话,那大概就是“派克袭击者”费伊,如何在早年被她抛弃的儿子萨缪尔的帮助下,把书腰上的新闻标题——激进嬉皮失足女教师恶意袭击派克州长致盲——中的这些标签一个个摘掉的过程:她不激进,也不是嬉皮...
评分NIX,在德国神话中,它是一种水中精灵,也谓之——水妖。在内森·希尔讲述的《水妖》的故事中,它不再是那个半人半鱼的的形象,而是一个来自于寒冷的挪威最北端极圈内那个小渔村中的古老神话,是一种会化身为白马的魅魔,它赢得了孩子们的爱,带着孩子们奔驰、飞舞,然后坠落。...
评分 评分摘自《水妖》第三部分:敌人、障碍、谜题、陷阱 开车前往养老院的路上,佩里温克尔打来了电话。 “嘿,哥们儿,”他的出版商说,声音充满回音,“只是想问问情况。” “你听上去很遥远。你在哪儿?” “纽约。我的办公室。我开免提了。大楼底下有一群抗议者, 他们在尖叫乱喊。...
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A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help.
To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
许多表面虚假的自我背后,并没有隐藏着一个真实的自我。事实上,遮蔽一个真实自我的是许多同样真实的自我。
评分最初以为是借“寻找母亲”题材来写历史,后来发现,作者更多关注的仍然是历史之下的个人。关于六十年代的部分写得好极了。以及读到某一段,导致我终于在阴阳师金盆洗手。
评分If you make the easy choice every day, then it becomes a pattern, and your patterns become your life.
评分最初以为是借“寻找母亲”题材来写历史,后来发现,作者更多关注的仍然是历史之下的个人。关于六十年代的部分写得好极了。以及读到某一段,导致我终于在阴阳师金盆洗手。
评分读完后又去看了三段Nathan Hill签书巡回的座谈访问,The Nix花了他用三年时间写,六年时间做research,他说Pwnage其实是跟自己研究生毕业后去纽约的一段生活相关。当初拿着自己的作品(还没开始写The Nix) 到处碰壁, 因为纽约本来作家就满地开花。在Queens跟11个老爷们儿挤着住。有一次因为搬家,临时把家当包括电脑,还有装满作品备份的硬盘都锁在车后备箱, 结果发现下班回来后都被盗。 一时心灰意冷开始打魔兽(是真的, 魔兽!) 颓废了好一整子。 后来就理所当然写了这么个人物。 加之自己正职是大学大一大二写作课老师, 难免现实中会遇到像Laura的那种学生。 Faye呢,取材于他妈,但他跟他妈本身关系很好并没谁抛弃谁。
The Nix 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书