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《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书

今年你的阅读计划都完成了吗？读过哪些让你深思的好书？近日，美国《纽约时报》评出2019年度十大好书，一起来看看哪些还没在你的书单里吧。

《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书1

《消失的土地》

By Julia Phillips

茱莉亚·菲利普斯著

In the first chapter of this assured debut novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town perched on the edge of the remote, brooding Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the various women who have been affected by their disappearance. Each richly textured tale pushes the narrative forward another month and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been shattered — personally, culturally and emotionally — by the crime.

在这本自信的处女作小说第一章中，两个年轻的女孩消失了，给这个坐落在遥远且静谧的堪察加半岛边缘的小镇带来了巨大冲击。接下来的小说由一系列相互交叠的小故事组成，讲述了她们的失踪给许多女人造成的影响。每一个情节丰富的故事都将叙事向前推进一个月，揭示了堪察加的女人们如何在个人、文化和情感层面受到这起犯罪行为的打击。

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《托皮卡学校》

By Ben Lerner

本·勒纳著

Lerner’s exhilarating third novel, after “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04,” rocks an emphatically American amplitude. Adam Gordon returns as the protagonist, but this time as a high school debate star, and mostly in the third person. Equal portions of the book are given over to the voices of his psychologist parents, and to a former classmate whose cognitive deficits are the inverse of Adam’s gifts. The earlier novels’ questions about art and authenticity persist; but Adam’s faithlessness is now stretched into a symptom of a national crisis of belief. Lerner’s own arsenal has always included a composer’s feel for orchestration, a ventriloquist’s vocal range and a fine ethnographic attunement.