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BBC又双叒叕出新书单了！！！ 希望9月伴随你的不再是“空调WiFi西瓜”，或许一本构思精巧的书能为你带来更多乐趣。小U今天就为大家介绍一下BBC推荐的这20本小众却不容错过的好书吧！ 01 《燃烧的女孩》 克莱尔·梅苏德 The Burning Girl by Claire Messud Teenage Julia is grieving the loss of her best friend Cassie. The two had been confidantes since nursery school. She watches in confusion as her friend changes overnight. Messud captures the complicated nature of contemporary adolescence through a nuanced portrait of childhood love and loyalty deteriorating under the pressures of approaching adulthood. 少女茱莉亚在为失去她最好的朋友凯茜而悲伤。从幼儿园起，俩人就是形影不离的伙伴。凯茜一夜之间发生了翻天覆地的改变，对此茱莉亚很是困惑。梅苏德细致入微地描写了童年时期的爱与忠诚在即将成年的压力之下慢慢损毁的景象，以此刻画了当代少年青春期的复杂特质。 02 《烈火家园》 卡米拉·夏姆斯 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Shamsie's powerful story of the complexities of love, family and state in wartime is structured as a contemporary Antigone. Aneeka Pasha's primary focus is on bringing back her twin brother Parvaiz, who was recruited by IS and sent to Raqqa, where he finds himself unable to "break out of these currents of history." Shamsie’s seventh novel is timely and tragic, with an unforgettable ending. 夏姆斯描述了一个充满力量的故事：战时的爱情，家人以及国家之间的复杂关系。本书被誉为当代的《安提戈涅》（古希腊悲剧作家索福克勒斯公元前442年的一部作品，被公认为是戏剧史上最伟大的作品之一。剧中描写了俄狄浦斯的女儿安提戈涅不顾国王克瑞翁的禁令，将自己的兄长，反叛城邦的波吕尼刻斯安葬，而被处死，而一意孤行的国王也遭致妻离子散的命运）。安妮卡·帕沙的首要任务是找回她的双生兄弟帕瓦兹，他被IS招募，并派到了叙利亚的拉卡。他发现自己无法“摆脱过去的烙印”。这是夏姆斯的第七部小说，具有时代特点和悲剧色彩，故事结局令人难忘。 03 《我的挚爱》 加百利·塔伦特 My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent In his ferocious, heart-breaking first novel, Tallent deciphers the twisted relationship between Turtle Alveston and her rugged loner father, Martin. The universe the two have shared on California’s Mendocino coast since her mother died grows increasingly claustrophobic as Turtle reaches her early teens and finds herself attracted to Jacob, a local boy. 这是塔伦特的处女作，残酷而又令人心碎。在本书中，他解读了特特尔·阿尔维斯顿和她严苛又不合群的父亲马丁之间的扭曲关系。自从特特尔的母亲去世后，她和父亲便在加州门多西诺海岸相依为命。但当特特尔步入青春期，并发现自己被邻家男孩雅各布吸引时，此前的世界对她而言却越来越阴暗狭小了。 04 《现成的贼》 奥古斯都·罗斯 The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose Marcel Duchamp is the patron saint of Rose's uncanny, near sublime first novel. When Lee Cuddy, the 17-year-old heroine, escapes from the place where teens get drugged, only to discover that a sinister cult of Duchamp devotees, is following her. Rose's intrepid street-smart heroine is a delight, as are other elements of his landscape—pawnshops, abandoned buildings and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Duchamp's mysterious final works are housed. 这是罗斯的小说处女作，怪诞离奇，又几乎称得上卓越超群了。著名画家马塞尔·杜尚可称为这本小说的守护神。本文女主莉·卡迪才离虎口又入狼窝：她好不容易逃离了毒窝，却发现自己被杜尚的狂热信徒盯上了。罗斯笔下英勇无畏、深谙街头生存之道的女主角读之令人愉悦，其他风景元素的运用同样如此——典当店，荒废的建筑以及收藏了杜尚神秘绝笔的费城艺术博物馆。 05 《为什么要谈论诗歌》 马修·泽普鲁德 Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder How does poetry create the "poetic state of mind", asks Zapruder, a poet, professor and New York Times Magazine poetry editor. With "clarity and eloquence," he writes, as he shows how poetry enlivens and reactivates language. 《纽约时报》杂志诗歌版的编辑泽普鲁德，同时也是一名诗人和教授，提出了一个问题，即诗歌如何创造出“诗意的心态”。他在书中作出了解答“口齿伶俐，能言善辩”，并展示了诗歌如何使语言重新具有活力。 06 《骨头的形状》 丹尼尔·加莱来 The Shape of Bones by Daniel Galera Galera, one of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Novelists, writes of Hermosa, a plastic surgeon haunted by a violent episode from his past. One morning he leaves his wife and toddler daughter and heads to the Andes to take on the risky Cerro Bonete with a professional climber friend. The drive, which takes him back to his boyhood neighborhood, becomes a meditation on that place. In subtle, textured prose, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, he captures the process through which a 15-year-old becomes a man. 加莱来被《格兰塔》誉为最优秀的年轻巴西小说家之一。赫莫萨是一名整形外科医生，他一直被过去的一段暴力经历所困扰。一天早晨，他离开了妻子和蹒跚学步的女儿，前往安第斯山脉的博内特峰，与一位职业登山者一起，踏上了一段惊险的旅途。对过去的反思驱使他踏上旅程，回到儿时故地。加莱拉以微妙的，富有质感的散文式语言，捕捉到一个15岁的男孩成为男人的过程。该书由艾莉森·恩崔金译自葡萄牙语。 07 《艾玛·雷耶斯回忆录》 艾玛·雷耶斯 The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes This extraordinary memoir from Colombian painter Emma Reyes, who died in 2003, is drawn from letters written over three decades. Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Alarcón, Reyes writes with captivating detail of a childhood of severe deprivation. 这是哥伦比亚画家艾玛·雷耶斯2003年离世后留下的非凡回忆录。该回忆录的内容来自其三十多年以来的信件，由丹尼尔·阿拉孔译自西班牙文。雷耶斯在书中细致地描写了自己极度贫困的童年。 08 《自由一种》 玛格丽特·威尔克森·塞克斯顿 A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton New Orleans from World War Two through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is the backdrop for Sexton's powerful first novel, which traces the complex downward spiral of a black family over three generations. Despite the struggles, A Kind of Freedom glimmers with hope. 塞克斯顿第一本小说的背景，是自二战起至后卡特里娜时代的新奥尔良。小说追溯了一个黑人家庭祖孙三代的复杂人生。尽管生活充满了艰辛，一种自由依然闪烁着希望。 09 《我是XX的兄弟》 芙洛儿‧雅埃吉 I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy Jaeggy, winner of the Premio Bagutta, is back with a new collection of 21 finely distilled and evocative stories. Jaeggy writes of Joseph Brodsky's Brooklyn in the story "Negde"(meaning nowhere in Russian)–in winter he visits the Promenade: "It's nice to sit on a bench and think, with a feeling of reciprocity, of the void.". 意大利巴古塔文学奖获得者雅埃吉收集了21个精挑细选，引人入胜的故事。她在故事“无处”中描写了著名作家约瑟夫·布罗茨基在布鲁克林的日子：于冬日漫步在布鲁克林高地步道，“享受相互恩赐的感觉，坐在长凳上，大脑放空，什么都不想，是件美好的事。” 10 《勇敢的行为》 大卫·艾布拉姆斯 上下滑动，查看更多精彩内容 Brave Deeds by David Abrams Abrams' second novel follows a squad of contemporary US soldiers on an AWOL mission—to attend the funeral of their leader. Their Humvee fails, they suffer from hunger and thirst, their tempers are rubbed raw, they draw attention from Iraqi civilians and insurgents… 艾布拉姆斯的第二部小说描写了一群当代美国士兵擅离职守，执行一项特殊的任务——参加长官的葬礼。他们的悍马出现故障，他们饥渴交迫，脾气也因此变得暴躁，还引起了伊拉克民众和叛乱分子的注意…… 11 《一场法式婚礼》 汉娜·汤尼克利夫 A French Wedding by Hannah Tunnicliffe Six friends gather at Max's house in Douarnenez on the coast of Normandy for his 40th birthday. He’s a rock star whose exhausting days on the road have left him yearning to reminisce with his university friends, especially Helen… 为了庆祝马克斯40岁生日，他的六个朋友聚集在他位于诺曼底海岸杜瓦讷内的家中。他是一个摇滚明星，疲于奔命的日子让他渴望与大学好友，特别是海伦追忆过去…… 12 《美丽动物》 劳伦斯·奥斯本 Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne Sensuous and elegantly written, Osborne's new novel revolves around Naomi, who has been coming to the Greek island of Hydra with her wealthy father since the days of Leonard Cohen, and Samantha, still in her teens. During an excursion to the far side of the island, they discover a man washed up from the sea. A masterful and sophisticated psychological thriller that explores moral ambiguity from multiple perspectives. 奥斯本的这一新作，充满美感，语言优雅，围绕着女主角内奥米展开。内奥米和她富有的父亲来到了希腊的水之岛，住在伦纳德·科恩曾经生活过的房子里。与她一起的还有她的朋友，十来岁的萨曼莎。在一次远足中，两个女孩儿发现了一个被冲上岸的男人。这是一部精湛而复杂的心理惊悚大作，从多角度探讨道德的模糊性。 13 《功成名就的客人》 安·贝蒂 The Accomplished Guest by Ann Beattie Beattie has achieved legendary stature as a master of the short story, based on her taut prose, tart wit and magical plot twists and turns. Throughout, Beattie captures the fragmented nature and frayed connections of contemporary times. 贝蒂凭借其紧凑的散文，敏锐的思维和奇巧曲折的情节设计，取得了传奇的地位，成为短篇小说大师。在整个过程中，贝蒂捕捉到时代的碎片本质和磨损的情感联系。 14 《圣日耳曼谋杀案》 卡拉‧布莱克 Murder in Saint-Germain by Cara Black It's late July 1999—"nothing but heat, showers and tourists"—and Aimée Leduc is juggling new motherhood and detective work from a temporary office on the Left Bank. She's monitoring the school's computer security when an art history professor there hires her to track a blackmailer… 这是1999年7月下旬，“只有热，淋浴和游客”，刚成为母亲的艾米·勒杜克正在左岸的临时办公室开展侦探工作。她正在监控学校电脑安全时，艺术史教授聘请她追查一个勒索犯…… 15 《不要惊慌》 麦乐·麦来 Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Two California couples take a holiday cruise down the coast of Mexico and Central America with their young children. One day the mums take the kids on an excursion with a guide, the van has a flat tyre… It's a boldly nightmarish scenario, and the drama is just beginning. 加利福尼亚州的两对夫妇带着小孩乘坐假日渡轮，沿着墨西哥和中美洲的海岸度过假期。一天，妈妈带着孩子们同导游去岸上远足，车胎爆了……这是一个惨烈的噩梦般的开场，而剧情才刚刚开始。 16 《婚约》 米歇尔·里士满 The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond When Alice, a former rock singer turned lawyer, marries Jake, a wedding guest gives them a mysterious gift. It's a membership in a secret society, The Pact. Richmond spins a complex web of surveillance and denial as Jake tracks down The Pact's mysterious founder in Scotland to save his marriage—and possibly his life. 曾是摇滚歌手的爱丽丝转行做了律师，在她和杰克结婚时，一位婚礼嘉宾送给了他们一份神秘礼物——成为秘密社团“公约”的成员。里士满编织了一个关于监视和背弃的复杂网络。书中，杰克追踪“公约”在苏格兰的神秘创始人，以挽救他的婚姻——甚或他的生活。 17 《致新业主》 玛德琳·布莱斯 To the New Owners by Madeleine Blais "We hoped the house would never sell," writes Blais, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, as she looks back upon decades of summertime memories on Martha's Vineyard. She covers multiple milestones—Stephen Spielberg's Jaws, presidential visits beginning with Bill Clinton and her annual rendezvous with Katherine Graham from 1989 until her death in 2001. 普利策奖获奖记者布莱斯写道，“我们希望这所房子永远不会被卖”。她回顾了那几年在马撒葡萄园岛上的夏日时光。她回忆了多个里程碑事件——斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格的《大白鲨》上映，从比尔·克林顿时期开始的总统访问，以及她与凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆每年一度的会面，从1989年起直至2001年格雷厄姆去世。 18 《意外之财》 迪克莎·巴苏 The Windfall by Diksha Basu Delhi native Basu's astute and comic take on upward mobility in 21st Century India begins when Mr. Jha sells his website and moves his family from an apartment in East Delhi where they've lived for 25 years to a mansion in Gurgaon. But first, the couple gives a party for their closest friends, knowing they will be the subjects of envious gossip. Already Mr. Jha has heard one of them call his hard-earned money "a lucky windfall". 德里本土作者巴苏对21世纪印度社会人们向上层的流动进行了敏锐而有趣的观察。吉哈先生卖掉了他的网站，和他的家人从东德里的一所住了25年的公寓搬进了位于古尔冈的豪宅。吉哈夫妇知道他们将成为别人嫉妒八卦的对象，但仍然邀请了最亲密的朋友们来参加聚会。吉哈听到其中一个人称他辛苦赚来的钱为“幸运的意外之财”。 19 《酸涩的心》 珍妮·张 Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang Like Zhang herself, many of her characters arrive in the US from Shanghai as young children, and are confronted with an alien language and parents struggling to bridge the cultural divide. In one story, a young girl devotes her lonely afternoons to concocting ways she can sacrifice as much as her parents did to get to America. These stories are as fresh and lively as they are illuminating. 珍妮创作的角色大都与她一样：年少时从上海来到美国的孩童，独自面对截然不同的语言，和努力弥合文化差异的父母。在其中的一个故事中，年轻的女孩贡献出自己孤单的午后时光，想象如果自己处在父母的位置，为了移民会愿意牺牲什么。这些故事鲜活生动，又发人深省。 20 《地震发生前》 基亚拉·巴西尼 Things That Happened Before the Earthquake by Chiara Barzini Barzini sets her dark and sophisticated coming-of-age novel in Los Angeles in the months between the 1992 riots after the acquittal of the police officers who killed Rodney King and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Eugenia moves from Rome to LA after her family stars in a commercial and her anarchist father decides they can become rich and famous in Hollywood. 巴西尼将这部黑暗、精细的小说背景设置于洛杉矶，时间介于1992年杀死罗德尼·金的警察们无罪释放后引起的骚乱事件和1994年发生北岭地震之间。尤金伲亚一家出演了一个商业广告后，她那无政府主义的父亲认为他们可以在好莱坞赚钱和出名，便从罗马搬到了洛杉矶。 你的9月要从哪本开始呢？ 编辑 | 王语萌 陶见平 |
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