【寫給千禧市代的厭世情書】
Beautiful World, Where Are You
※ 口袋書尺寸,介意字體大小者請留意
Alice和摯友Eileen雙雙陷入一段難以言喻的複雜關係中。
新銳作家Alice,為了治癒精神問題離開家鄉,來到一處無人知曉自己名氣的小鎮生活,透過交友軟體認識了在倉儲工作的當地人Felix。兩人在網路上相談甚歡,迫不及待見面的Alice更直球邀約Felix與她一同前往義大利參加簽書會,而這趟旅行也讓兩人感情急速升溫。然而,快速成形的愛情,能抵過激情背後的真實嗎?
Elieen為一間冷門文學報社寫作,剛與交往多年的男友分手。認識多年的Simon恰好在此時聯繫,Elieen也逐漸對一直陪伴在身邊、共同經歷人生起伏的Simon心生好感。然而兩人長年的情誼,是感情的根基,亦是阻礙。對彼此過於熟悉的兩人,終究無法分清楚在關係中感受到的是愛?抑或只是對彼此的熟悉感?
相較於前作《正常人》和《聊天記錄》,Sally Ronney在本作中實驗性地一口氣書寫四個角色,他們之間的互動與逐漸緊密卻又疏遠的關係,深入探討社會與階級對於個人的影響。不變的是Ronney透過文字展現對人心與情感的細膩觀察,以及對群體與個體的犀利批判。
喜歡前作的讀者,也千萬別錯過Beautiful World, Where Are You!
★Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
尺寸:17 x 10.5 x 2.5 cm
ISBN:9781250885937