读过《August Blue》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
明亮有力的文字,偶发的风趣和穿透生活的洞察,造就了她独特的风格,这本也不例外。同样也是她非常擅长写的故事。疏离的father figure,缺失的母亲,臆想中的母女关系——不得不让人想到她一再探讨的主题:故乡与流民。不过因为读了real estate,完全可以在这本里找到很多在real estate里写过的细节,感觉窥见了创作过程的延续;与此同时似乎也在阅读过程中不可避免地产生了些许失落。感到虚构作品的魔力被消解,大概就是提前窥得创作动机后必然的感受吧。
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August Blue
Goodreads Douban'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries.'
Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano virtuoso. In a flea market in Athens, she watches an enigmatic woman buy two mechanical dancing horses. Is it possible that the woman who is so enchanted with the horses is her living double? Is she also looking for reasons to live?
Chasing their doubles across Europe, the two women grapple with their conceptions of the world and each other, culminating in a final encounter in a fateful summer rainstorm.
A vivid portrait of a long-held identity coming apart,
expands our understanding of the ways in which we seek to find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.