Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.
發表於2024-12-22
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路上讀書解讀: 就像以斯拉在訪談節目裏暗示的那樣,盡管他說的是二戰,但伊拉剋戰爭何嘗不是如此呢?對遠離戰場的人來說,那些不曾經曆過二戰,那些不曾親眼目睹過伊拉剋戰爭的人來說,戰爭和它帶來的傷害就像一個抽象概念。 對於美國人來說,在伊拉剋發動戰爭如同一場遊戲,...
評分路上讀書解讀: 就像以斯拉在訪談節目裏暗示的那樣,盡管他說的是二戰,但伊拉剋戰爭何嘗不是如此呢?對遠離戰場的人來說,那些不曾經曆過二戰,那些不曾親眼目睹過伊拉剋戰爭的人來說,戰爭和它帶來的傷害就像一個抽象概念。 對於美國人來說,在伊拉剋發動戰爭如同一場遊戲,...
評分路上讀書解讀: 就像以斯拉在訪談節目裏暗示的那樣,盡管他說的是二戰,但伊拉剋戰爭何嘗不是如此呢?對遠離戰場的人來說,那些不曾經曆過二戰,那些不曾親眼目睹過伊拉剋戰爭的人來說,戰爭和它帶來的傷害就像一個抽象概念。 對於美國人來說,在伊拉剋發動戰爭如同一場遊戲,...
評分路上讀書解讀: 就像以斯拉在訪談節目裏暗示的那樣,盡管他說的是二戰,但伊拉剋戰爭何嘗不是如此呢?對遠離戰場的人來說,那些不曾經曆過二戰,那些不曾親眼目睹過伊拉剋戰爭的人來說,戰爭和它帶來的傷害就像一個抽象概念。 對於美國人來說,在伊拉剋發動戰爭如同一場遊戲,...
評分孟WZ在溫哥華的法庭上特意強調自己好多年沒讀過小說,她接下來應該有點時間。其實讀小說對大多數人來說可能都比較奢侈,我並不例外,隻是猶太作傢菲利普·羅斯的去世纔讓《不對稱》(Asymmetry, 2018)進入到我基本上隻接納非虛構作品的閱讀興趣中。 作為女作傢Lisa Halliday的第...
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有講兩性關係中權力的imbalance,卻沒有提供任何新的觀點,也不夠透徹,三段之前太牽強,當暢銷書隨便讀一讀還好。
評分Worth re-reading part two!
評分Worth re-reading part two!
評分去年很hyped的一本書,文字還比較流暢,但是內容的組織不敢恭維。也許因為實在想找到第二和第一部分的聯係,所以帶著懸念一口氣讀完。不能不說覺得這本和幾年前的Fates and Furies一樣,都是捧齣來的
評分評價超高的一本,但我又不能領會瞭,可能是看膩瞭老男少女flirting。用詞比較平,某種程度上我可能也是慕精英措辭型的。
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