运营经验《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书

《消失的土地》

By Julia Phillips

茱莉亚·菲利普斯著

In the first chapter of this assured debut novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town perched on the edge of the remote, brooding Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the various women who have been affected by their disappearance. Each richly textured tale pushes the narrative forward another month and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been shattered — personally, culturally and emotionally — by the crime.

在这本自信的处女作小说第一章中，两个年轻的女孩消失了，给这个坐落在遥远且静谧的堪察加半岛边缘的小镇带来了巨大冲击。接下来的小说由一系列相互交叠的小故事组成，讲述了她们的失踪给许多女人造成的影响。每一个情节丰富的故事都将叙事向前推进一个月，揭示了堪察加的女人们如何在个人、文化和情感层面受到这起犯罪行为的打击。

perch [pɜːtʃ]：v.栖息；就位；位于

《托皮卡学校》

By Ben Lerner

本·勒纳著

Lerner’s exhilarating third novel, after “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04,” rocks an emphatically American amplitude. Adam Gordon returns as the protagonist, but this time as a high school debate star, and mostly in the third person. Equal portions of the book are given over to the voices of his psychologist parents, and to a former classmate whose cognitive deficits are the inverse of Adam’s gifts. The earlier novels’ questions about art and authenticity persist; but Adam’s faithlessness is now stretched into a symptom of a national crisis of belief. Lerner’s own arsenal has always included a composer’s feel for orchestration, a ventriloquist’s vocal range and a fine ethnographic attunement.

这是勒纳令人振奋的第三部小说。继《离开阿托查车站》和《10:04》之后，本书展现了一种极为美国式的宽广。亚当·戈登再度成为主人公，但这次是作为高中辩论明星，而且主要是以第三人称出现。他的心理学家父母，以及一个有认知缺陷、和亚当的天赋形成鲜明对比的前同学，得到了同等的篇幅。勒纳早期小说对艺术和真伪的质疑依然存在；但是亚当的信仰缺失如今已经扩展成一个国家信仰危机的症状。一名作曲家对管弦乐编曲的感觉，一个腹语表演者的音域，以及一种细腻的民族和谐，一直都是勒纳所倚仗的。

amplitude [ˈæmplɪtjuːd]：n.丰富，充足；广阔

protagonist [prəˈtæɡənɪst]：n.主角，主演；主要人物

ventriloquist[venˈtrɪləkwɪst]：n.腹语术者；口技艺人

《呼气》

By Ted Chiang

特德·姜著

Many of the nine deeply beautiful stories in this collection explore the material consequences of time travel. Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you without an ounce of condescension. Each thoughtful, elegantly crafted story poses a philosophical question; Chiang curates all nine into a conversation that comes full circle, after having traversed remarkable terrain.

这本合集收录了九个美丽动人的短篇小说，其中好几篇都探讨了时间旅行的重大后果。阅读它们就像和一位朋友坐在一起吃饭，席间他向你解释科学理论，毫无居高临下之态。每一个深思熟虑、构思优雅的故事都提出了一个哲学问题；在经历了一段非凡的旅程后，特德·姜将这9则故事构织成了一场圆融的谈话。

condescension [ˌkɒndɪˈsenʃn]：n.傲慢态度

《失踪儿童档案》

By Valeria Luiselli

瓦莱丽娅·鲁塞利著

The Mexican author’s third novel — her first to be written in English — unfolds against a backdrop of crisis: of children crossing borders, facing death, being detained, being deported unaccompanied by their guardians. The novel centers on a couple and their two children (all unnamed), who are taking a road trip from New York City to the Mexican border; the couple’s marriage is on the brink of collapse as they pursue independent ethnographic research projects and the woman tries to help a Mexican immigrant find her daughters, who’ve gone missing in their attempt to cross the border behind her. The brilliance of Luiselli’s writing stirs rage and pity, but what might one do after reading such a novel? Acutely sensitive to these misgivings, Luiselli has delivered a madly allusive, self-reflexive, experimental book, one that is as much about storytellers and storytelling as it is about lost children.

这位墨西哥作家的第三部小说——也是她的第一部英文小说——以一场危机为背景展开：孩子们穿越边境，面临死亡，被拘禁，在没有监护人陪伴的情况下被驱逐出境。小说以一对夫妇和他们的两个孩子（都没有名字）为中心，他们正沿着从纽约市到墨西哥边境的公路旅行；在进行独立的人种学研究的同时，这对夫妇的婚姻正处于崩溃的边缘，女人试图帮助一名墨西哥移民找到她在试图越过边境时失踪的女儿。鲁塞利的写作才华引起了人们的愤怒和怜悯，但读了这样一部小说之后，人们会怎么做呢？鲁塞利对这些疑虑极为敏感，她带来了一本充满暗喻、自我反思与实验性的书，既是关于故事讲述者，也是关于失踪的儿童。

misgiving [ˌmɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ]：n.疑虑，担忧，不安

《开往丹吉尔的夜船》

By Kevin Barry

凯文·巴里著

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