奇幻
坟场之书 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Graveyard Book
8.3 (56 个评分) 作者: [英] 尼尔·盖曼 / 张晓雨 (插图作者) 译者: 胡雅倩 四川科学技术出版社 2010 - 3
一个婴儿。一座坟场。一次刺杀的结束,一个传奇的开始。在墓园里。有幽灵。有食尸鬼。还有神秘的守护者。连死神也亲自出马。(不用担心。她是一位和蔼的女士。)在人世间,有骗子,有恶棍,也有普通的老百姓。还有一位天真烂漫的小姑娘。

成长故事,法术修炼。冒险经历,少年初恋。贯穿全书的是刺杀与复仇的较量。

墓地的阴森反衬出鬼魂的温情。喧嚣的人世却冷漠无情。但最终,坟场里成长的少年仍将告别往昔。走向社会。走向成年……
鬼妈妈 豆瓣
8.0 (8 个评分) 作者: [英国] 尼尔·盖曼 译者: 杨玲玲 少年儿童出版社 2005 - 7
《鬼妈妈》曾获2002年布莱姆·斯托克奖、2003年雨果奖最佳中篇小说、2003年星云奖最佳中篇小说、2003美国图书协会最佳青少年读物。是一部既写给孩子、又是写给大人看的风格诡异的幻想小说。作者尼尔·盖曼自己说:“我原本打算为我的女儿写一个5到1O页的短故事,但是故事自己有了生命……孩子们会把它当成一个有趣的冒险,大人看了却会做噩梦。”
伪伦敦 豆瓣
Un Lun Dun
7.7 (12 个评分) 作者: [英国] 柴纳·米耶维 译者: 吴宜洁 重庆大学出版社 2011 - 3
照耀伦敦的太阳,蛀蚀了伪伦敦的闇阳。这是伪伦敦战事的第一个征兆。
在伪伦敦街头,破伞先 生指 挥着 从伦敦来的所有破雨伞,武士桶者保卫着读经师和匿踪桥。伪伦敦是镜子里的反城市,伦敦的所有垃圾、旧物、废气、烟雾都会渗透进伪伦敦。原来,伪伦敦正危机四伏,札娜命中注定要成为天书上记 载的英雄。英雄是天命注定的吗?天书的预言一定会成真吗?在伪伦敦,一切都不按牌理出牌……
2020年4月17日 已读
这本我是看了多久才看完啊……就,设定还蛮好玩的但是故事情节怎么说呢……太predictable还是什么,总之没什么看下去的欲望,而且读起来总觉得臭臭的【bushi……
奇幻 英国
Fortunately, the Milk 豆瓣 Goodreads
Fortunately, the Milk
9.1 (7 个评分) 作者: Neil Gaiman / Skottie Young HarperCollins 2013 - 9
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."
I said to myself.
Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious
bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.
2020年7月18日 已读
太可爱了吧这个爸爸!!!还有MADAM那边我原地喊了大概20个shit(扶额
NeilGaiman 奇幻 英国
Norse Mythology 豆瓣
8.5 (15 个评分) 作者: [英国] 尼尔·盖曼 W. W. Norton & Company 2017 - 2
Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales.
In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki―son of a giant―blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman―difficult with his beard and huge appetite―to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir―the most sagacious of gods―is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.
Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.
2020年9月1日 已读
"I have a bad feeling about this," said Thor. 真的笑吐了
奇幻 神话
Anansi Boys 豆瓣
作者: Neil Gaiman William Morrow & Co 2005 - 9
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life. Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie. Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself. Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
The Ickabog 豆瓣
作者: J. K. Rowling Scholastic Inc 2020 - 11
2021年5月18日 已读
讲真我不排斥政治隐喻的童话,但是这种哄孩子的口吻有必要吗?前一半实在太拖沓听得来气,炸叔那么有意思的narration都拯救不了……后一半观感好很多,但是真的,没什么必要写成这么长一个故事……
儿童文学 奇幻
风之影 豆瓣 Goodreads
La Sombra del Viento
7.7 (13 个评分) 作者: [西] 卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰 译者: 范湲 上海文艺出版社 2019 - 10
* 西班牙400年来最好的小说。* “风之影四部曲”简体中文完整版首次登陆中国。* 维基百科:自1605年以来,创下最高销量纪录的西班牙小说就是《风之影》。* Goodreads读者票选,全球百部新经典Top 100 New Classics第13名。* 一本世界级小说,狂销1500万册,译成40种语言,引发全球“萨丰狂热(Zafón-mania)”。* 2001年问世,一跃成为西班牙出版畅销奇迹,纪录至今无人打破。* 读过那么多小说,看过那么多电影,但这个故事,还是会让你铭记一生。“风之影四部曲”是西班牙鬼才作家卡洛斯·鲁依兹·萨丰创作的长篇小说系列,包含《风之影》《天使游戏》《天堂囚徒》和《灵魂迷宫》。2001年《风之影》问世,一跃成为西班牙出版畅销奇迹,横扫德法英美意等国畅销书榜单,并在全球创下1500万册销量纪录,被载入维基百科“畅销书”条目。按照记录,西班牙出版史上销量最高、影响力最大的作品,第一名是《堂吉诃德》,第二名便是《风之影》。因为这部作品真的是无人不晓,媒体创造了一个词“萨丰狂热”来形容萨丰小说的超高人气。之后《天使游戏》《天堂囚徒》不断刷新版权交易额,引发国际版权争夺战。四部曲的终章《灵魂迷宫》于2016年11月问世,萨丰在这部长达900页的宏大作品里,揭开了故事的终极秘密。他不枉读者15年的等待,为整个系列画下完美句点。2019年10月,“风之影四部曲”首次以完整阵容呈现给中国读者们,是阅读小说的超棒选择。
内容简介
1945年,巴塞罗那,西班牙内战的阴影尚未散去。城中错综的街道小巷里,隐藏着一座巨大且神秘的藏书馆——遗忘书之墓。据说被世人遗忘的书籍,终将回归此处。小男孩达涅尔在这里发现一本名为《风之影》的小说,从此打开了一段往来于回忆与现实、天堂与地狱的忧伤往事。
2021年5月25日 已读
只按后半本打分大概可以给到四分,前半本我真的不大可,感觉跟后半本根本不是一个水平……以及对女性角色的塑造真的很败好感
奇幻 文学 西班牙
烟与镜 豆瓣
Smoke and Mirrors
6.0 (34 个评分) 作者: [英] 尼尔·盖曼 译者: 王爽 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2021 - 3
编辑推荐
◆看得头皮发麻的同时,原始的人性一览无遗。
◆《烟与镜》是格芬奖、斯托克奖、轨迹奖提名、世界奇幻奖提名作品!
◆作者尼尔·盖曼是当代奇幻大师,被斯蒂芬·金称作“故事的宝库”。
◆收录29个尼尔·盖曼经典短篇,写尽原始人性中的爱、嫉妒、贪婪、自私、恐惧和悲伤。
◆尼尔·盖曼颠覆经典,改写《白雪公主》,摒弃童话中的真善美元素,让人看得头皮发麻。
◆集悬疑、惊悚、哥特风格于一体。彻底打破幻想和现实的界限!
◆盖曼是一位罕见的作家。他用心书写故事,充满智慧,有时甚至用一种相当独特的、毫不掩饰的视角看待人性。——Goodreads 读者
内容简介
本书收录29个尼尔·盖曼经典短篇,写尽人性中的爱、嫉妒、贪婪、自私、恐惧和悲伤。
当天堂发生谋杀案;当“白雪公主是好人”是一个由公主讲述的谎言;
当世上不再有动物可吃,只有婴儿可供选择;
当恶魔吃掉男孩,以男孩之名走进人间;
当性别可以借助药物随意转化;当买凶杀人可以享受批发价……
翻开《烟与镜》,看得头皮发麻的同时,原始的人性一览无遗。
媒体评论
1.尼尔·盖曼是故事的宝库,拥有他是我们的幸运。——斯蒂芬·金
2.尼尔·盖曼是英国国宝,现在他也同样成为了美国国宝。——科幻大师威廉·吉布森
3.当你全身心沉浸到尼尔•盖曼的世界里,你会发现,一切皆有可能。他拥有非凡的创造力,他从不遵循一致的规则,他随心所欲,惟追随梦想而写作。——《娱乐周刊》
4.盖曼的作品将H.G. 威尔斯的想象、H.P.洛夫克拉夫特的诡异氛围以及伍德豪斯的幽默智慧结合在一起,他既能让我们的血液凝固,也能让我们仰天大笑。——《明尼阿波利斯星论坛》
5.尼尔·盖曼的思想就像深不可测的幽暗海洋。每次沉入海中,周遭世界随之隐去,取而代之的是一个更加恐怖、也更加美妙的世界。——《纽约时报》
6.阅读盖曼的乐趣之一就是看他如何颠覆我们对魔法、恐怖、幻想和世俗的期望。 ——《泰晤士报》
2021年8月10日 已读
《白雪·镜子·苹果》好有道理!我被说服了!但是这本书真的不能看译本,至少不能看读客的译本,什么鬼翻译什么头皮发麻……改天找原版看看
奇幻 小说 英国
Fragile Things 豆瓣
作者: [英国] 尼尔·盖曼 William Morrow 2006 - 10
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . </p>
In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . </p>
In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . </p>
Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-;and nightmares . . . </p>
In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . </p>
Such marvelous creations and more-;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction-;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time. </p>
2021年11月19日 已读
三星半吧,读NG的短篇有点开盲盒……对绿字的研究无感是怪我不懂克……后面几篇有点无力,How to Talk to Girls at Parties还是惊艳,但是有些quirkiness吧,get不到的就是真的get不到……
奇幻 短篇 英国
Good Omens: A Full Cast Production 豆瓣
作者: Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett HarperAudio 2021 - 11
A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!
"Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick."—Washington Post
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
Don’t miss Season 2 of the Prime original series!
2022年1月3日 已读
明明有一大堆书看不完偏要重读Good Omens一百遍的我……但是就,太愉快了啊,虽然也是DTT和辛老师,这版里的Crowley和Azi其实和剧版差别还蛮大,确实很符合原著性格一点
奇幻 英国
The Hobbit 豆瓣
9.1 (9 个评分) 作者: J.R.R. Tolkien HarperCollins 2008 - 4
The first ever illustrated paperback of the critically acclaimed and beloved children's classic, featuring 26 colour paintings and over 30 pencil drawings by Alan Lee.
2021年12月8日 已读
真的很有读睡前故事的感觉,氛围感好强,明明没这么特别的情节但就是很有代入感,外加有声书这个narrator真的太牛了,一个人读出了一部广播剧啊,尤其Gollum那一小点点戏份,直接有画面了……但是最后读到大舅和Fili Kili没了那边😭还是好难过,想起电影情节呜呜
奇幻 英国
Stardust 豆瓣
作者: Neil Gaiman Headline Review 2007
In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era,life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall. Young Tristran horn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester, but Victoria is cold and distant as the star she and Tristran see fall from the sky one evening. For the prize of Victoria's hand, Tristran vows to retreive the star for his beloved. It is an oath that sends the lovelorn swain over the town's ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...
2021年12月24日 已读
这本感觉写得格外散,但是意向又很美,后半本比前半本更吸引人,女孩子是天上坠落的星星
奇幻 英国
The Two Towers 豆瓣
10.0 (8 个评分) 作者: J. R. R. Tolkien HarperCollins 2007 - 4
The second volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy relates a tale of the eternal battle between good and evil. "The author has intimate access to an epic tradition of Germanic history, civilized by the gentler genius of modern England." -- New York Times
2022年5月28日 已读
这本节奏还挺快!居然比电影版多那么多情节~讲真书里对Entmoot的描述太史诗了读着起了一身鸡皮疙瘩,还有书版的Faramir是什么神仙(嚎啕
奇幻 魔幻
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence Goodreads 豆瓣
8.3 (7 个评分) 作者: R. F Kuang Harper Voyager 2022 - 8
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.
Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.
For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…
Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
2022年9月12日 已读
救命这本书的设定!一个由语言和翻译学构成的魔法世界,支撑起一个不断发展、贪婪扩张的庞大帝国,几个年轻学者试图用自己渺小的身躯扭转滚滚碾过的历史车轮,主角的弧光非常完整,他从无知到和平主义到暴力抗争的发展转折点都很明确,小团体里另外三个角色以及秘密组织Hermes成员的形象也很鲜明。正如这本书小标题所言,它最终讨论的点是“暴力的必要性”,即对抗暴力不能一味诉诸和平的方式,这本身就是一个很悲壮的议题,在这本书里的表现方式也足够惨烈和黑暗……另外这本书奇幻的表现方式是基于翻译,作者展现出非常敏捷的语源学和翻译学知识运用,也相当有意思
历史 奇幻 美国
The Sandman: Act II 豆瓣
作者: Neil Gaiman (Author) / Dirk Maggs (Author) Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio 2021 - 9
This physical edition of The Sandman: Act II from Brilliance Publishing contains a beautifully crafted booklet outlining episodes, characters, and voice talent. It also includes 3 exclusive Sandman stickers created with exclusive character art from Audible.
Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues in The Sandman: Act II. James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in this sequel to the #1 New York Times audio best-seller. Journey into a world of myths, imagination, and terror based on the best-selling DC comic books and graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (returning as the Narrator), and lose yourself in another groundbreaking, immersive drama adapted and directed by the award-winning audio master Dirk Maggs.
In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, Ancient Rome, 19th-Century San Francisco, 8th-century Baghdad, and beyond. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter.
Just close your eyes and listen again as the greatest epic continues.
Act II of the audio series The Sandman adapts collected volumes 4 (Season of Mists) and 5 (A Game of You) of the comics in their entirety, and most of volume 6 (Fables & Reflections).
2022年10月13日 已读
😂这个苏格兰洛基我笑死,DTT你怎么肥四,不太聪明的亚子……Kat Dennings的Death我是真的不太可,好出戏……一美的Morpheus格外欠揍呢别说Nada我都想抽他(转头看看剧版的小可怜🥺)sdrs,Soft Places这个故事我好喜欢,呜呜呜太喜欢Fiddler's Green了~(还有我怎么没听出来这个Cluracan的声音是Aidan Turner我大概是个傻子……
奇幻 广播剧
Good Omens 豆瓣
Good Omens
9.3 (6 个评分) 作者: Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett HarperTorch 2006
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
It is the coming of the End Times: the Apocalypse is near, and Final Judgment will soon descend upon the human race. This comes as a bit of bad news to the angel Aziraphale (who was the angel of the Garden of Eden) and the demon Crowley (who, when he was originally named Crawly, was the serpent who tempted Eve to eat the apple), respectively the representatives of God and Satan on Earth, as they have become used to living their cozy, comfortable lives and have, in a perverse way, taken a liking to humanity. As such, since they are good friends (despite ostensibly representing the polar opposites of Good and Evil), they decide to work together and keep an eye on the Antichrist, destined to be the son of a prominent American diplomat stationed in Britain, and thus ensure he grows up in a way that means he can never decide between Good and Evil, thereby postponing the end of the world.
Unfortunately, Warlock, the child everyone thinks is the Anti-Christ is, in fact, a perfectly normal eleven-year-old boy. Due to mishandling of several infants in the hospital, the real Anti-Christ is Adam Young, a charismatic and slightly otherworldly eleven-year-old who, despite being the harbinger of the Apocalypse, has lived a perfectly normal life as the son of typical English parents and as a result has no idea of his true powers. As Adam blissfully and naively uses his powers, creating around him the world of Just William (because he thinks that is what an English child's life should be like), the race is on to find him—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse assemble and the incredibly accurate (yet so highly specific as to be useless) prophecies of Agnes Nutter, seventeenth-century prophetess, are rapidly coming true.
Agnes Nutter was a witch in the 17th century and the only truly accurate prophet to have ever lived. She wrote a book called The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, a collection of prophecies that did not sell very well because they were unspectacular, cryptic and, ironically enough, all true. She, in fact, decided to publish it only so that she could receive a free author's copy. There is only one copy of the book left, which belongs to her descendant Anathema Device. Agnes was burned at the stake by a mob (because that is what mobs did at that time); however, because she had foreseen her fiery end ("Ye're tardy; I should have been aflame ten minutes since") and had packed 80 pounds of gunpowder and 40 pounds of roofing nails into her petticoats, everyone who participated in the burning was killed instantly.
Anathema teams up with Newton Pulsifer, the descendant of the man who initiated the burning of Agnes, to use the prophesies and find the Antichrist. Unfortunately, that is exactly what everyone else is trying to do, and time is running out.
2023年2月23日 已读
啊我是为什么又读了一遍……一大堆新书还没读完但是Monica又读了一遍好兆头,一大堆新剧没看但是Monica又看了一遍好兆头……但是真的很快乐啊!对很多烂熟于心的梗也不妨碍我再读到还是笑出声……Neil Gaiman是真的很喜欢这种有点anticlimactic的结局,宏大的铺陈之后戛然而止但是感觉很cozy又意犹未尽,每次看到三个孩子拿着树枝搭成的简陋道具对抗面目可怖的天启骑士,还是会忍不住感叹,怎么能说这不是史诗呢?
奇幻 幽默
Her Body and Other Parties 豆瓣
7.0 (6 个评分) 作者: Carmen Maria Machado Graywolf Press 2017 - 10
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
2023年7月13日 已读
CMM的文笔真的很有灵气,诡谲、敏捷、飘逸,夹杂着大量奇异的意象和比喻,整体感觉是徘徊在fantasy和horror的界限上,因为之前读In the Dream House了解过她的经历,读这本时一些有关苦痛和创伤的表述更容易理解,这本集合了女性面临的身体和精神上的失权、失声,充满了被压抑和扭曲的女性欲望,还笼罩着阴郁和死亡的影子,实验性的文风更加怪诞,但是故事本身优秀的和疲软的都非常明显……The Husband Stitch、Eight Bites和The Resident都挺不错,然后中间那一段Especially Heinous连讲十二季Law & Order: SVU真的很让我摸不着头脑
奇幻 惊悚 美国