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2024-11-22
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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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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...
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評分故事講述的方式很獨特,但是沒有一種沉溺其中的淋灕盡至。
評分Worth re-reading part two!
評分Worth re-reading part two!
評分Worth re-reading part two!
Asymmetry 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載