威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

陈希我对存在的书写，在当代作家中首屈一指。在这本书里，他仍然用他尖锐之笔，冒犯了我们的常态世界，拷问了肉身的沉重、灵魂的痛楚，存在的真相。九篇故事，毋宁是打开了九层地狱。作者就像但丁，把读者引进去，步步深入，一层比一层更不堪更恐怖，但一层比一层更切近真相，也一层比一层更接近通往天堂的阶梯。但是通往天堂是需要勇气的，陈希我本人的勇气不等于读者的勇气，所以在每篇开头，陈希我都在询问：你可以选择合上这本书，你确实要打开吗？

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

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