condescension [ˌkɒndɪˈsenʃn]：n.傲慢态度

《失踪儿童档案》

By Valeria Luiselli

瓦莱丽娅·鲁塞利著

The Mexican author’s third novel — her first to be written in English — unfolds against a backdrop of crisis: of children crossing borders, facing death, being detained, being deported unaccompanied by their guardians. The novel centers on a couple and their two children (all unnamed), who are taking a road trip from New York City to the Mexican border; the couple’s marriage is on the brink of collapse as they pursue independent ethnographic research projects and the woman tries to help a Mexican immigrant find her daughters, who’ve gone missing in their attempt to cross the border behind her. The brilliance of Luiselli’s writing stirs rage and pity, but what might one do after reading such a novel? Acutely sensitive to these misgivings, Luiselli has delivered a madly allusive, self-reflexive, experimental book, one that is as much about storytellers and storytelling as it is about lost children.

这位墨西哥作家的第三部小说——也是她的第一部英文小说——以一场危机为背景展开：孩子们穿越边境，面临死亡，被拘禁，在没有监护人陪伴的情况下被驱逐出境。小说以一对夫妇和他们的两个孩子（都没有名字）为中心，他们正沿着从纽约市到墨西哥边境的公路旅行；在进行独立的人种学研究的同时，这对夫妇的婚姻正处于崩溃的边缘，女人试图帮助一名墨西哥移民找到她在试图越过边境时失踪的女儿。鲁塞利的写作才华引起了人们的愤怒和怜悯，但读了这样一部小说之后，人们会怎么做呢？鲁塞利对这些疑虑极为敏感，她带来了一本充满暗喻、自我反思与实验性的书，既是关于故事讲述者，也是关于失踪的儿童。

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