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莎莉‧魯尼創造了全新的愛情的樣貌
《正常人》+《與朋友對話》套書包括:
《Normal People》
康尼爾(Connell)與瑪麗安(Marianne)兩人從小在愛爾蘭的鄉村間長大,卻來自兩個不同的世界。康尼爾的媽媽在瑪麗安的家中打掃,正因為如此,每天下課他會去瑪麗安的家中找母親,再順道一起回家。日久生情,慢慢地,康尼爾認識了瑪麗安,理解她的頑固與樸質的性格,而朋友不多的瑪麗安也漸漸和康尼爾熟識。
兩小無猜的愛情在進入大學以後變了調。在都柏林聖三一學院裡,階級的問題浮現了。瑪麗安越來越受歡迎,康尼爾則面對更多棘手的問題。這不僅僅是部愛情小說,莎莉.魯尼(Sally Rooney)的第二本小說為讀者開拓更深層的視野;透過主角,我們在征服與特權中、階級與種族間,載浮載沉。
作者莎莉.魯尼不到三十歲便出版了兩本小說。從小生長於都柏林,文章散見於報章雜誌,《Normal People》是她繼《Conversations With Friends》後又一力作,探詢年輕人成長過程所面臨的疑惑,青澀的故事下,包藏對青春的追憶。
(文 / 博客來編譯)
《Conversation with Friends》
法蘭西斯是個冷靜、善於觀察的年輕女子,一邊在都柏林讀書一邊寫作。她最好的朋友是美麗而沉著的芭比。兩人在新詩朗讀會上遇到了知名攝影師梅莉莎,她開始用相機記錄這兩個好友的生活。隨著她們與梅莉莎的交集越來越密切,法蘭西斯也羨慕起梅莉莎與她丈夫尼克的富裕家境。此時,法蘭西斯與尼克之間的曖昧逐漸發酵,即將摧毀他們身邊所有人的關係…
莎莉‧魯尼以精準的描述功力與詼諧的幽默感,將年輕世代的快樂與危機、女性友人之間既親密又帶點心機的微妙關係,重現在讀者眼前。
(文/博客來編譯)
《Normal People》
Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.
《Conversation with Friends》
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.
Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.