Petrushevskaya, a celebrated author in Russia, was born in 1938 across the street from the Kremlin in the Metropol Hotel, Moscow's "most famed residential building". While she was an infant, many members of her family of intellectuals were arrested and executed as "enemies of the people". This ushered in a childhood of severe deprivation, starvation and isolation. She eats from the neighbour's garbage and can't go to school in winter because she has no shoes. Yet Petrushevskaya narrates with joy swimming in the Volga, her grandmother's retelling of classics by Gogol from memory and watching Rossini's The Barber of Seville after climbing up the outside of the opera house.
俄罗斯著名作家彼得鲁舍夫斯卡娅1938年生于克里姆林宫街对面的都市酒店,这里是莫斯科“最有名的住宅”。在彼得鲁舍夫斯卡娅还是个婴儿的时候,家族中的许多知识分子遭到逮捕,被当成“人民公敌”处决。这让她在童年处境穷困、忍饥挨饿和饱受孤立。她从邻居家的垃圾中找吃的,因为没有鞋穿冬天没法上学。然而彼得鲁舍夫斯卡娅在小说中讲述的是在伏尔加河欢乐地游泳、祖母凭借记忆讲果戈理的经典故事,以及趴在歌剧院的墙上偷看罗西尼的歌剧《塞维利亚的理发师》的故事。
Katie Kitamura, A Separation
Katie Kitamura《一场分居》
The opening to Kitamura's third novel is pitch-perfect: "It began with a telephone call from Isabella. She wanted to know where Christopher was." Isabella's son Christopher and his wife, the narrator, have kept their six-month marital separation a secret. Now he has disappeared. And his lies and betrayals are coming undone. The wife flies to Athens to track him down, determined to ask for a divorce. A Separation is an atmospheric and emotionally sophisticated novel that reads like a taut Patricia Highsmith thriller.
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