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Sally Rooney, the youngest-ever winner of both the British and Costa Book Awards, is a spokesperson for the millennial generation. This masterpiece, written by a post-90s Irish female author, captures the current state of youth through online communication, and has become a revelation across social media platforms.
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In times of crisis, we all have to decide again and again,
Who should we love?
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Frances, an Irish university student, writes poetry and loves literature. In the summer of her 21st year, she and her girlfriend, Bobby, met the moderately famous writer Melissa and her actor husband, Nick. In bookstores, gardens, cafes, and apartment buildings, Frances and her friends, old and new, engaged in conversation, their witty conversations sometimes drawing them closer, sometimes alienating them. Before they knew it, Frances and Nick embarked on an extramarital affair, one they knew would never lead to anything.
As her life spirals out of control and her values ​​recede, Frances experiences a second wave of growth amidst love, desire, and pain. She re-examines her own vulnerabilities and prejudices, and questions and answers about friendship, love, marriage, money, religion, and illness. To understand the world and herself, one must first experience life. Frances discovers that she can no longer remain an armchair strategist...
"Chat Logs" is a story told by a young poet. Written in clear, straightforward language, the novel addresses a series of moral dilemmas faced by individuals in modern society. Frances, or rather, the author, Sally Rooney, is a young philosopher, bravely facing life's perplexities and sincerely pondering the relationship between man and the world.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
★ This is the debut novel by Sally Rooney, an Irish female writer born in the 1990s and the youngest winner in history of the British Book Award and the Costa Book Award.
★ Hailed as "the first great writer of the millennial generation", the novel's approachable conversational style is full of wisdom and insight into the complex dynamics of interpersonal relationships, accurately capturing the current situation of young people in the "post-financial crisis" era.
★ The "hopelessly sad" young people's deep sensitivity to their own bodies, intelligence, and class triggers their thinking about power.
★ Email, online chat, text messages, and Facebook are integrated into the characters’ daily lives, and the tone of online communication constructs a new narrative style and tension.
★ Highly recommended by young writers Zhang Yueran and Zhou Jianing, and young translator Chen Yikan!
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Rooney accurately captures the reality of contemporary youth: conversations flow seamlessly between emails, text messages, and eye contact; they are confident in their sexuality and creativity; and they adore older men who write emails with all lowercase initials. Her first-person narrator, 21-year-old Frances, is a constant and meticulous observer, yet Rooney allows the reader to see what Frances overlooks.
—The Paris Review's recommendation for the best novel of the year: "A great beauty of Rooney's thoroughly brilliant novel lies in her sharp insight into the self-deception that often accompanies so-called self-knowledge." ... "Chats" is a book of ingenious ideas. But its observations on people are even more brilliant.
—The New Yorker
Rooney brilliantly portrays a talented but self-destructive young woman, capturing her mental and physical state. She is keenly aware that apparent freedom is actually constrained by invisible barriers. … Rooney's eloquent characters may not be able to express their vulnerable selves, but she uses her unique voice to speak for them.
—The Guardian
I love reading debut novels that are so unbelievable they're actually debut novels... "Chat Records" paints a compelling and nuanced portrait of a brilliant female university student entangled in a love affair with an older, married man.
—Zadi Smith Sally Rooney is a rising star in the literary world. In "Chat Notes," she uses the compact, relaxed, and cool style of B.E. Ellis's early works to write about a group of young people in the 21st century, who are just like the honest and self-important young people of Irish descent described by Salinger.
—Colin Barrett, author of The Young Men of Granby

2019-07-22

上海译文出版社

Archipelago Books

304

9787532781393