Too Much Happiness

艾丽丝•门罗（Alice Munro，1931— ）加拿大女作家，当代短篇小说大师，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。少女时代即开始写作，37岁时出版第一部作品。她一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。

出版者:Knopf

作者:Alice Munro

页数:320

出版时间:2009-11-17

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307269768

图书标签:Alice_Munro小说英文原版英语原版外国文学AliceMunroNovelCanada

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.

With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative—even daring—collection.

读后感

由于读了友邻推荐的关于这本书的日记，才好奇要来读读豆瓣上对它的评论。之所以好奇，是因为那篇日记里对这本书的理解和我截然不同，不，我第一个直觉就反对，那时我感到的是温柔。对方似乎是另一个角度、另一个面向，说的是门罗写作手法的极简主义，也说的是门罗玩弄技巧、鞭...  

"too much happiness“ -- 有那么一两篇，让我一度怀疑自己在看亦舒。 一个拉大提琴的女老师，被嬉皮士老公劈腿、出轨。她知道后说那咱们三个人想想以后怎么对付吧。男的是个混不吝，说，不是三个人，没有咱们 -- 干脆利落地把她扫地出了门。女老师咽不下这口气，天天打扮得花...  

莎拉只是作为妻子和母亲的角色存在着，她没有她自己，除了她和儿子肯特共同关注的不为人知的小岛（达库尼亚岛——音译为不可抵达之岛）。那是专属于他们两个人的秘密，两个人独立于庸常生活的自由。 肯特离家出走多年之后，当她第一次在网上查到那个小岛，它已经成为那些花花绿...

用户评价

是那种能让你忘记看的不是中文的原版书，近期读书的一个惊喜

看似平淡但是波涛汹涌，情感太丰富笔触太细腻

我开始想人们在日常生活中做出的某个不经意的决定，其背后有什么东西隐藏着呢？神秘，又让人无法否认。

我开始想人们在日常生活中做出的某个不经意的决定，其背后有什么东西隐藏着呢？神秘，又让人无法否认。

这本里的故事就要爽快很多。只是每篇的结尾都停在很奇怪的地方。有时候我都不免怀疑是不是因为我看的是盗版，所以不全。