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.
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
每寸语言都震颤的我的心,把我从混乱的理性生活里拉出来,我又一次考虑,关于感性与理性取舍的问题。然后心里那么多多愁善感的过去混合着此位帅哥敏感的话语,回来。 “可我始终觉得,现在的生活中,一个我们所爱的人缺席了,就像站在一座山前,在远远的山脊,远到只能看成一个...
评分在读西蒙凡布伊这本《因为。爱》之前,就在《一周》文艺版上看过他上海之行的专访。西蒙的短篇小说志在传输给大家如何克服悲剧的爱的力量以及爱的真谛,而其实他本人却是一个遭遇爱妻亡故的单身父亲。除了写作,他把大部分的时间都放在了照顾年幼的女儿身上,对西蒙来说,他首先...
评分这是一部渗透着残忍华丽的小说集子。 作者西蒙.凡.布伊落笔锐利,看似漫不经心的叙述实际上却是在讲述一个宏大而隐忍的事实,关于死亡,关于生命,关于爱情,关于那些繁花似锦的迤逦感情。 阅读这本书,需要坚持力和难得的固定性,没有跌宕起伏的剧情,没有故作绚烂的花腔,...
评分这篇其实也是一篇读后感来的,是西蒙·凡·希伊《因为·爱》短篇小说集的第二篇。不知不觉就跟着编者的意思把这本好看的书慢慢看。或者是我终于学会好书要慢慢品,细细参的意思了吧... 故事虽然是设定为一个垂死病人的回忆,虽然那夹带着战争的给人带来了伤害的回忆多少让人觉...
评分我唯一想说的是秉着困意看完此书是莫大的煎熬。 与所谓“刻骨铭心”完全不相符。 如果只有故作惊奇的情结与堆砌的词汇,索性不看的好。 真正刻骨铭心的爱,不需要此等修饰。力量存在于真实,伟大存在于平凡。 嘿,去接触真正有力量的作品吧。
作者拥有细致入微的观察力和广阔无边的想象力,要是我能写出一个如此灵动的句子就好了!
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