圖書標籤: 小說 Shteyngart 科幻 Gary 美國文學 反烏托邦 美國 英語
发表于2024-11-08
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The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan , Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,” as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.
After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork” effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny’s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He’s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect’s “hotness” and “sustainability” with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
開頭和中間都不錯,到瞭結尾部分有力有不逮的感覺,給瞭個爛俗的結局。不過坐在F train上看書時看到主人翁也在坐F train,有種其妙的感覺。然後,作者的老婆似乎真是個韓國人。。。
評分super sad, yet amazingly true.
評分very bold imagination and unorthodox tale that in the near future US becoming a failed country is in a total collaspe while China has replaced its super power status, but the story line to be a bit slow and the main characters is hard to love. I understand the author trying to make a broad social satire for dystopia of American decline but he fails
評分二讀的分析:作者一直在強調美國已經過氣,通過年老的白人主角和他年輕的亞洲女友之間失敗的愛情來強調失去和對過去的緬懷。中國的接手,mass surveillance 和 military occupation 都成為美國經濟衰退以及大國不再的徵兆。
評分二讀的分析:作者一直在強調美國已經過氣,通過年老的白人主角和他年輕的亞洲女友之間失敗的愛情來強調失去和對過去的緬懷。中國的接手,mass surveillance 和 military occupation 都成為美國經濟衰退以及大國不再的徵兆。
Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
評分Super Sad True Love Story is once again about something a cheesy title always omits - death. It reconciles the urban development expectation we've grown familiar and learned how to put up with and the utmost fear of our obvious never-by-choice demise as an ...
Super Sad True Love Story pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024