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Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Born in Sanming, China, Ling grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught. Currently, she serve as an assistant professor at her alma mater, University of Chicago.
风趣幽默,节奏也蛮舒服;对末世的想象力实际上还蛮匮乏的,但是也是这样才让人惊醒,我们在日常生活里消费主义主导下的种种麻木表现,和末日丧尸比起来又高明在哪里
评分打开本书的时候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之后读完觉得自己也成了一个fevered 在自己制定的routine里打圈圈,觉得厌烦但又无法逃脱
评分打开本书的时候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之后读完觉得自己也成了一个fevered 在自己制定的routine里打圈圈,觉得厌烦但又无法逃脱
评分挺好看的僵尸文学,真正的敌人不是病菌,而是capitalism、consummerism、corporate culture三大件。#没有烂尾!
评分读之前对内容一无所知,刚开篇就提到了N95口罩,一次性手套,瘟疫,我呼吸都加速了。作者以SARS为原型,虚构了一场源起深圳叫做Shen fever的全球性瘟疫。故事主人公生活在纽约,目睹着纽约因瘟疫流行而从繁华到废弃,想想现在的纽约简直是疫情震中,一种不寒而栗的感觉。小说中的两个故事,都让我对摩西出埃及有了进一步的认识,其一是“我”的父母于1988年抵达美国,因次年发生在国内的事件而决定留在美国;其二是“我”从一个被独裁的幸存者小团体中逃出。作者出生在福州,幼年随父母移民美国。作者的写作很棒,结构好,遣词造句好,场景构建好。我忍不住想,如果作者没有移民美国,她现在会是一个很好的作家吗?前两天,作者凭这本小说得了一个奖,有五万刀奖金,18年出版的小说似乎因为疫情再次获得关注。由衷恭喜她!
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Severance pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024