House during the day, house at night

Dom dzienny, dom nocny

The new Nobel Prize winner in Literature, the International Booker Prize winner, and the Queen of Polish Literature——
Olga Tokarczuk's representative work, introduced and published in mainland China for the first time.
In this fragmented novel of magical realism, the succession of human generations is a fleeting dream of the land.
Editor's Choice: Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Literature (awarded in October 2019), has published 83 times in 25 countries and regions over the past 18 years. It also won the 1999 Nike Readers' Choice Award, and its English translation was shortlisted for the 2004 Dublin Literary Prize.
☆ Along with One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Sandalwood Death, it was listed as one of the ten recommended books by the "Magical Realism Reading Club" of National Taiwan University (directed by Luo Yijun).
☆ Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich (author of Second-Hand Time) called him a "brilliant writer" and regarded him as a fellow rebel.
This multi-layered, multi-plot novel is composed of over one hundred features, stories, and essay fragments. Each story is a refined short story, and together they form a masterful novel filled with foreshadowing and echoes. The intricate narrative technique offers readers a thrilling reading experience, like solving a puzzle.
Easy to understand yet profound, simple yet philosophical, meaningful yet not gloomy. In Tokarczuk's novels, everyday life acquires a rare density, filled with inherent complexity, intense contradictions and conflicts, intriguing twists and turns, and turbulent drama.
☆ Marquez's history, Szymborska's time, and Jelinek's cultural identity are all integrated in Tokarczuk's pen.
☆ The cover is printed on both sides, one side is "House during the Day" and the other side is "House at Night".
"House of Day, House of Night" tells the story of a small frontier town. From the first pioneering knifemaker who settled there to the arrival of the heroine and her husband, the same land is transformed over millennia through different historical moments and the shifting lives of different people. Legendary characters appear here: a saint with a beard, a gender-bending monk, a drunkard with a bird inside his body, a small-town teacher who transforms into a werewolf, a wigmaker who hibernates, and a woman who collects dreams online... Over the millennia, the world has undergone countless changes, ups and downs, but for the land, the joys and sorrows of humankind, the passage of generations, are but fleeting dreams.
This is a marvelous novel, a fusion of genres and interwoven storylines: short stories, essays, folk tales, hagiography, even recipes and notes. Each story is a refined short story, yet taken together, it forms a masterful novel, rich in foreshadowing and echoes.
◎ Celebrities recommend brilliant and magnificent writers.
—SA Alexievich (Nobel Prize winner in Literature, author of Second-Hand Time)
Dreams, the dreams of people in dreams, or the streets in the real world outside dreams that shine with the glory of dreams, weave and patch together such a wonderful book from the outside, inside, above and below, which pulls readers into the position of God's vision and overlooks the surging dreams that occur, bloom or fade away.
—Luo Yijun (author of "Xixia Hotel")
◎ The media recommends that her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, representing a life form that transcends boundaries.
Tokarczuk's prose is simple and unpretentious. She tells stories with a natural voice, effortlessly conveying the hope, monotony, and absurdity of her world. She interweaves imagination with real life, blends dreams into reality, and overlaps memories with the present, all seamlessly.
—The Observer
Her first book translated into English, House of Day, House of Night, also has a mysterious appeal in 2002. All her novels reflect the complex history of Poland that has been re-imagined, and her realism is extremely magical realism.
—The Guardian
◎ Award Record★ The author won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019)
★ Won the 1999 Nike Readers' Choice Award ★ The English translation was shortlisted for the 2004 Dublin Literary Award

2017-12-01

四川人民出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

432

9787220103728