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BBC推荐：4月必读书单

Richard Bausch, Living in the Weather of the World

理查德•鲍什《生活在世界大环境之下》

These 14 flawless new stories from a master craftsman deal with betrayals, distances and unspoken family conflict. In The Same People, as a couple married for decades prepare to end their lives, the wife says, “I wish we'd had children.” The young Memphis painter in The Lineaments of Gratified Desire finds his engagement disrupted when he is commissioned by a wealthy 83-year-old to paint a nude portrait of his 23-year-old bride-to-be. Two Iraq war veterans drink cognac with a Vietnam vet who owns a Memphis bar; Veterans Night ends in tragedy. As the gloomy narrator of Map-Reading a gay man estranged from his family who is meeting his half sister on a windy, rainy day, puts it, “this was life in the world: getting yourself drenched even with an umbrella.” (Credit: Knopf)

这14篇完美的全新故事出自一位文坛巨匠之手，他善于描写背叛、隔阂以及其他难以言说的家庭矛盾。在《相同的人》一文中，一对已经结婚几十年的夫妇准备结束他们的生命时，妻子说“我们当初要是有个孩子就好了”。而在《心满意足的模样》一文中，来自孟菲斯的年轻画家被一位83岁的富翁指派，要求他给自己23岁的未婚妻画一幅裸体像，二人的婚约因此被扰乱。在《老兵之夜》一文中，两名参加过伊拉克战争的老兵同一名越南老兵一起喝白兰地，这名越南老兵在孟菲斯拥有一家酒吧，故事最后以悲剧收尾。《读地图》一文中，故事的讲述者是一位忧郁的同性恋，被自己的家庭疏远，还在既刮风又下雨的天气里遇见了自己同父异母的姐妹，他说“这就是这个世界上的生活：即使你撑着雨伞，你还是会被淋湿。”

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