内容摘要 Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Verónica, Julián finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life – of their lives together. What combination of desire and coincidence led them here, to this very night? What will the future – and possibly motherless – Daniela think of him and his stories? Why tell stories at all? ???The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra’s second novel, now published in the UK for the first time in a revised translation by Megan McDowell, overflows with his signature wit and his gift for crafting short novels that manage to contain whole worlds. (来源amazon.co.uk)维罗妮卡迟到了,朱利安越来越确信她永远不会回家。为了打发时间,他即兴编了一个关于树木的故事来哄继女丹妮拉入睡。他以文学教授为生,创作了一部关于一个男人在周末照料盆景树的小说。他是一个叙述者、一个建筑师、一个别人故事的编年史者。但随着夜色在他面前延伸,几个小时过去了,维罗妮卡却不见踪影,朱利安发现自己陷入了他的生活故事的洪流中——他们在一起的生活。什么样的欲望和巧合让他们来到这里,来到这个夜晚?未来——可能没有母亲的丹妮拉会怎样看待他和他的故事?为什么要讲故事? 《树木的私生活》是亚历杭德罗·赞布拉的第二部小说,现已在英国首次出版,由梅根·麦克道尔修订译本,充满了他标志性的智慧和创作短篇小说的天赋,这些小说成功地包含了整个世界。 (来源amazon.co.uk)
书收到了,很新,价位也不高
非常好