From the Nigerian-born, Minneapolis-based Arimah comes a story collection full of dazzlers. Light, in which a father taking care of his 11-year-old daughter in Nigeria while her mother is in the US pursuing her MBA discovers he wants to preserve her “streak of fire”, won the 2015 African Commonwealth Prize. In Who Will Greet You at Home, a National Magazine Award finalist after publication in The New Yorker, an assistant hairdresser creates a yearned-for baby out of hair, only to discover its insatiable appetites. In the dystopian title story, a finalist for the 2016 Caine Prize, a woman who specialises in calculating grief faces the question “What would happen if you couldn't forget, if every emotion from every person whose grief you'd eaten came back up?” (Credit: Riverhead Books)
作者亚丽玛出生于尼日利亚,居住在美国明尼阿波利斯。她写了一本充满光怪陆离元素的故事集,并获得了2015年非洲联邦奖。在故事《光》中,父亲在妻子去美国攻读工商管理学硕士时,独自待在尼日利亚照顾他们11岁的女儿,他发现他想要保护女儿的“火花”。《谁会在家里迎接你》在《纽约客》发表后入围国家杂志奖,书中的一位美发师助理用头发创造出一个自己渴望的婴孩,却发现这个婴孩欲壑难填。在一个入围了2016凯恩文学奖的反乌托邦标题的故事中,一位总是在计算各种悲伤的女人直面这个问题:“如果你无法忘记从每个人表情中吸收的悲伤,那会发生什么?”
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