Zoli

Zorrie

A concise recommendation of the top five 2021 National Book Award winners | A "complete life book" about growth, life, and self | A miniature emotional epic exploring the relationship between people and their inner and outer worlds | Life is not a legend; being alive is a miracle.
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◎Editor's Recommendation
1. The representative works of Laird Hunter, an award-winning all-round writer (he holds multiple positions as writer, scholar and translator), will be introduced to Chinese readers for the first time.
2. The master's writing style is free and easy, with a good balance of tension and relaxation. He used only tens of thousands of words, less than 200 pages, to write about an ordinary person's life with both joys and sorrows, gains and losses. It can be regarded as a literary model.
3. It is not only a true portrayal of the protagonist’s life, but also a true portrayal of the lives of most of us - life is not only full of laughter and happiness, but also regrets and pain, and countless unspeakable and unnecessary moments of silence.
4. Literature not only praises "capital-case people", but also never ignores "lower-case people" - the ordinary people in the novel seem to be around us. Even if they encounter all kinds of misfortunes and setbacks, they continue to look for their place in life and strive to live a good life.
5. Human emotions are so complex that no amount of words can describe them enough - this is a work that is like a history of the soul about the individual's hidden, subtle and tangled emotions. We can also find resonance in the subtle emotions explored.
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◎Introduction: As a child, Zorie Underwood lived a life of poverty and turmoil. After her parents died of diphtheria, she moved in with her aunt, whose death once again orphaned her and plunged her into the Great Depression. Later, she wandered the West, making a living by doing odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars. Then, she became a "Radium Girl," working in a factory applying radium to watch dials, which also laid the groundwork for her future. When she settled down in Indiana, she finally found the sense of belonging she had always longed for in a small town called Hillisburg, experiencing the warmth of home and the company of her loved ones. But just as her new life was beginning, she discovered that the test of life was far from over...
How is an ordinary person's life shaken and transformed by the events of the 20th century? What dreams drive this tenacious woman to keep moving forward? Sometimes, despite your best efforts, misfortune inevitably strikes. How should you respond to life's unexpected changes? Over the course of a lifetime, how should you navigate your inner life? The answers lie within this poetic novel, set against a backdrop of both harsh and moving quintessentially American landscapes.
What you hold in your hands is not just a book; it is a person's life.
—Hernán Díaz (author, Pulitzer Prize winner)
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This novel isn't a work of clamorous literature. It's the kind of realist writing Flaubert himself championed, a narrative technique that uses incisive details to accumulate details... Hunter's prose is driven by powerful questions: Who were these ancestors who toiled the land for decades, seemingly without complaint? In a community of rule-abiding, go-with-the-flow individuals, how did they forge happiness and navigate their surging love?
—The New York Times Book Review
A tender, luminous novel… so beautiful it rivals Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” or Dennis Johnson’s “Train Dreams.”
—Anthony Doerr (author)
[“A roundup of the best books of 2021,” published in The Guardian]
Zoli's ordinary life, filled with hard work and simple pleasures, gradually allows her to understand that life itself is the true miracle. A quiet, beautiful, and unforgettable novel.
—Library Journal, starred review: "Hunter packs Zorie's life into this slender volume of less than 200 pages, yet it feels neither too short nor too long. Zorie's life may seem simple to some, but it remains a fascinating and living well worth exploring. Through the lens of bereavement and the sorrows of life, Hunt's intimate and lyrical novel demonstrates that life is not the sum of negative experiences but rather a collection of joyful moments."
——American magazine "Self-Evident" A seemingly simple book tells the story of the various strange forces that shape life... Hunter's novels read like poetry, reminiscent of writers such as Paul Harding and Marilynne Robinson, emitting a heat that comes from a beating heart.
—Vox (American news and commentary website)
Zoëlie lives and breathes, both as a character and as a work. In this novel, life flows naturally, joy is embraced, and sorrow is faced. It's a moving portrait of one woman's life—and, by extension, of all our lives. Laird Hunter has a gift for describing crucial details with clarity and precision; with a subtle touch, he brings to life the ups and downs of middle America in the mid-twentieth century. This is a luminous book, sometimes illuminated by the strange light of radium.
—Erica Wagner (author)

2024-03-01

广西师范大学出版社

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9787559866936