Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
发表于2025-02-05
Love Begins in Winter 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
"I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. " 这句话出现在开头第五页位置。想说说它的出处。 博尔赫斯在This Craft of Verse第五部分开头第一句: Walter Pater wrote that all a...
评分“他们最终会相遇,会喜欢上,但不太会结婚;他们会有巅峰会有低谷,但最终不太会幸福;世界,就在安静地等待着被这样的人慢慢填满。这些故事,不论发生在哪个城市,都不会忘记温柔地提醒你:我们拥有的都已经不复存在了。” 以上是书腰封上的一段话,整书读完,并未找到这段...
评分 评分此书收录了五个短篇(我觉得算是中篇吧),最核心最核心的主题是相关的,所以选文这方面做得不错。 五篇都提到童年和爱,主人公都是怀有些童年悲伤或阴影,成年后生活有点失衡或孤独,但在某一个时候,遇上某些人,有某种新的开始。这些人们,其实都是长大了的孩子,外表是成...
评分西蒙·范·布伊的《爱,始于冬季》,去年作为人民文学出版社推出的“短经典”系列首辑,终于在我的书架上躺到了传说中世界末日的春天,虽然在长三角还是湿冷的阴天,但现在捧起来读,似乎并不妨碍它散发出那沛盈的梦想、悲伤和爱,以及这些人类与生俱来的天赋对我心灵的交...
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On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.
游泳和溺水。
评分Love is like life but starts before and continues after - we arrive and depart in the middle.
评分Love is like life but starts before and continues after - we arrive and depart in the middle.
评分文字美得很。
评分当代作家里少见Simon这样充满了爱与希望、乐观与热情的作家
Love Begins in Winter 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书