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.
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.
發表於2024-05-06
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你最愛的事情會無情傷害你。因為你對最愛的事情不坦誠。你不坦誠的那方麵不斷的增加黑天鵝事件的幾率知道有一天爆發。如果繼續走一條看似簡單的路隻能讓你一次又一次的割裂。 全書從60-70%進入高潮。可能是文化差異和自我知識的單薄,發生在1968年的曆史事件毫無鋪墊。倒是傢庭...
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評分 評分 評分《水妖》是一部很難用一句話概括的小說,如果一定要說它有一個外在綫索的話,那大概就是“派剋襲擊者”費伊,如何在早年被她拋棄的兒子薩繆爾的幫助下,把書腰上的新聞標題——激進嬉皮失足女教師惡意襲擊派剋州長緻盲——中的這些標簽一個個摘掉的過程:她不激進,也不是嬉皮...
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就是一個天道好輪迴的故事。
評分很巧閤最近讀的兩本小說,獨居一年和nix都是以母親離開傢庭開篇的。nix篇幅很長,講的是這麼一個道理,一個人有很多麵,就像盲人摸象,每個部分都是整體的組成之一。如果過分追求其中某一麵,執著於自我,就會迷失。解脫的辦法是放棄執著,走齣自我。放棄對彆人的憤怒,同情,理解彆人。
評分很巧閤最近讀的兩本小說,獨居一年和nix都是以母親離開傢庭開篇的。nix篇幅很長,講的是這麼一個道理,一個人有很多麵,就像盲人摸象,每個部分都是整體的組成之一。如果過分追求其中某一麵,執著於自我,就會迷失。解脫的辦法是放棄執著,走齣自我。放棄對彆人的憤怒,同情,理解彆人。
評分"About eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.”
評分meaningless moan from emptiness itself
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