商品簡介
In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the university of language. "Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic. One can read anything: ants crawling on the ground; pimples one a face; trees in a forest." In another story, a man opens a newspaper and sees the photograph of a man he may have murdered, which he impulsively clips, only to feel that in doing so he unwittingly has sealed his crime: "As soon as I finished, I realized what I had done: by cutting my father's likeness out of the newspaper, I had removed him from the world." The collection crescendos in displays of raw creative power, as in "Eight plots," a rapid-fire of three- and four-sentence summaries, and the brilliant, impressionistic "!".
作者簡介
The recipient of a Lannan Residency and a Pew Fellowship, poet and fiction writer Linh Dinh is the author of four books of poems and two collections of stories, including Blood and Soap, which was one of The Village Voice's Best Books of 2004. He is also the editor of two anthologies of Vietnamese writers and poets.
