Severance 在线电子书 图书标签: 小说 美国 科幻 英文原版 末日 华裔作家 女性 移民
发表于2025-04-16
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读之前对内容一无所知,刚开篇就提到了N95口罩,一次性手套,瘟疫,我呼吸都加速了。作者以SARS为原型,虚构了一场源起深圳叫做Shen fever的全球性瘟疫。故事主人公生活在纽约,目睹着纽约因瘟疫流行而从繁华到废弃,想想现在的纽约简直是疫情震中,一种不寒而栗的感觉。小说中的两个故事,都让我对摩西出埃及有了进一步的认识,其一是“我”的父母于1988年抵达美国,因次年发生在国内的事件而决定留在美国;其二是“我”从一个被独裁的幸存者小团体中逃出。作者出生在福州,幼年随父母移民美国。作者的写作很棒,结构好,遣词造句好,场景构建好。我忍不住想,如果作者没有移民美国,她现在会是一个很好的作家吗?前两天,作者凭这本小说得了一个奖,有五万刀奖金,18年出版的小说似乎因为疫情再次获得关注。由衷恭喜她!
评分末世病毒的侵袭 不如看到过于熟悉的坐标下城市衰败崩塌心悸 果然是生活化的场景最有冲击力 - To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?
评分The world is a mall. 原本以为是the story of animal laboran, 后来发现也不尽然,更像是置放在资本主义中的「人是习惯的动物」的故事。和COVID-19及SARS挺不一样的,书中Shen-fever时期人人的恐慌倒并不明显。「回忆」甚至是「乡愁/怀旧」与病毒免疫及感染有着微妙的关联,使得这些主题在这本涉及移民题材的小说里没有完全落入俗套。对女性的体验和视角有了更细致的刻画,有「为母则刚」的影子。双叙事线并行得干净利落,是轻松的page-turner。部分情节的设定和想象还是有些匮乏了。
评分打开本书的时候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之后读完觉得自己也成了一个fevered 在自己制定的routine里打圈圈,觉得厌烦但又无法逃脱
评分四星送给本书带来的四股近期Asian American文学的清流:一星给first-gen immigrant experience,二星给末日主题,三星给一颗不矫情的平常心,四星给为母则刚的世纪觉醒
Born in Sanming, China, Ling grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught. Currently, she serve as an assistant professor at her alma mater, University of Chicago.
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
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