A brave young woman negotiates Beijing life in search of love and friendship in the daring new novel by Xiaolu Guo, Orange Prize shortlisted author and 'one of China's most successful literary exports' (Guardian)

近年来，中国作家用英语创作的小说在西方越来越受关注。最近在英国出版的《20 Fragments of A Ravenous Youth》（笔者草译为‘一个饥俄青年的20片断’）是来自北京的作家和电影制作者郭小橹的新作。 作品描述的是一个名叫芬芳的农村姑娘，千里迢迢来到北京寻求她的艺术梦，并立志要征服这个城市的故事。 为了打进影视圈，芬芳不惜在片场充当群众演员，在剧场扫地；她不停的换工作，也不停的换男人，而她对成功的饥饿如同她健硕的胃口，永远得不到满足。 作者以直接了当、诙谐尖锐的笔调塑造了一个集愤怒、无奈、坚强、脆弱于一身的现代中国女性形象，这对西方的阅读市场不能不说是一种文化冲击。在此之前，郭小橹于2007年发表的第一部用英语写作的小说 《A Concise Chinese - English Dictionary for Lovers》 ( 笔者...(展开全部)

我想盡情的吃，吃到這個王八蛋世界不再虧欠我一分一毫。 一個聰穎、激情的年輕女孩，貿然闖蕩北京這個快速變遷的漩渦， 她努力追逐她的夢想，就算如螻蟻般的不知羞恥，也要讓她的青春盡情燃燒。 我的青春始於二十一歲。 在那一年，我頭一回注意到生命中光芒耀眼的東西，或許有一些是屬於我的。如果你覺得二十一歲才開始進入青春稍嫌過晚，不妨試想一下普遍的中國農民，他們往往直接由童年跳入中年，中間缺乏過渡階段。如果人生必有缺憾，我寧可選擇去掉中年。要嘛年輕，要嘛衰亡。那就是我的人生盤算。 我不過是個無知的鄉下姑娘，什麼也不懂，成天只知道在地裡挖番薯。二十一歲，發生我人生巨大轉變的那年，在北京電影製片廠，我填了一張申請表，繳交了十五塊錢人民幣的登記費用，然後獲得了一個編號，臨時演員6787，整個人生就此改觀。我是北京第6787個想要在電影和電視產業裡討生活的人。雖然那幾乎就...(展开全部)

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes o...(展开全部)

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. ...(展开全部)

A visual journey to the intersection of math and imagination, guided by an award-winning author Mathematics is right brain work, art left brain, right? Not so. This intriguing book shows how intertwined the disciplines are. Portraying the work of many contemporary artists in media from metals to glass to snow, Fragments of Infinity draws us into the mysteries of one-sided surfa...(展开全部)

A visual journey to the intersection of math and imagination, guided by an award-winning author Mathematics is right brain work, art left brain, right? Not so. This intriguing book shows how intertwined the disciplines are. Portraying the work of many contemporary artists in media from metals to glass to snow, Fragments of Infinity draws us into the mysteries of one-sided surfa...(展开全部)

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was – temporarily – an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year’s formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjectio...(展开全部)