克兰的新小说的灵感来自克里斯蒂娜•奥尔森,她是安德鲁•威特著名画作《克里斯蒂娜的世界》中的女人。克里斯蒂娜居住在缅因州库辛的祖先留下来的房子里,她因童年疾病而身患残疾,骨骼和关节多年来持续退化。她与一名哈佛大学生分手后,也失去了逃跑的梦想。直到有一天,一个叫韦思的人来她家附近过暑假,并想把他们的房子作为工作室来画画。他与克里斯蒂娜发生了一段亲密关系。克里斯蒂娜和她的哥哥Al以及这所房子成为韦思数十年来的创作主题。克兰描述了一个美丽女人的内心生活,她在书中写道:“那座房子有时是避难所,有时是监狱,归根到底,那座山上的房子始终是我的家。”
Ethel Rohan, The Weight of Him
埃塞尔•罗翰《他的体重》
Big Billy Brennan, the vulnerable man at the heart of Ethel Rohan's first novel, is mired in grief - his teenage son has just committed suicide. He's also gone up to 180kg and can't seem to stop eating. Days before returning to work as a quality inspector at a toy factory in rural Ireland, he begins walking a few laps around the house. He grows determined to wage a public campaign to lose half of his weight, and raise funds for suicide prevention. His parents, wife and three remaining children are aghast. Despite setbacks, he sticks to his plan. In heart-rending passages, Rohan captures the ways in which parents blame each other and themselves for the loss of a child, and the courage it takes to change.
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