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2024-05-21
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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...
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...
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...
圖書標籤: 小說 美國文學 英文原版 美國 愛情 政治 NYKTimes English
第一部分雖然虎頭蛇尾但仍然暖心,怪老頭和高冷女的故事真是不分國籍、萬年賣點永不變。。。
評分為瞭找齣第一部分和第二部分的關聯纔一路看到瞭最後…the folly part is banal, and the madness part is interesting. The third part is kitsch. 如果第二部分單獨作為一本小說並且完整和充實一點我想我會打4星,然而整本書給人以東拼西湊之感,最後也沒有讓人眼前一亮的恍然大悟之感。第一部分price tag過多宛如在讀小時代。
評分一般般吧 有點過譽瞭
評分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A slick me-too story at first glance, a perplexing 2nd act, then a revelation wrapped in 3rd act. A cerebral layered self-reflexive commentary on the power of writing, the possibility of empathy to bridge divides, the young writer penetrating the looking glass and delving into Amar's identity, losing herself, like Amar to god, Alice to Ezra.
Asymmetry 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載