商品簡介
Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and children in a lake house north of the city. Arriving late at the airport, he is met by his unrelentingly opinionated mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead, but Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong side of the river. Trying to find the right route back, they become trapped on the Tappan Zee Bridge in an immense traffic jam. As Gustav and Mother sit gridlocked high above the Hudson River, Gustav begins to think of his late father, the renowned intellectual Ludwig David Rubin. Then, in a surprising, highly original twist worthy of Kafka, both Gustav and Rosa see Ludwig's body - "the colossal, golemlike fatherbody" - floating naked in the waters below.
Crossing the Hudson is a meditation on a Jewish family and its past; on the lasting distorting effects on a son of a famous, vital father and a clinging, overwhelming mother; and on the differences between the generation of European intellectual refugees who arrived in the United States during the Second World War and the children of that generation.
作者簡介
Peter Stephan Jungk
Peter Stephan Jungk was born in Los Angeles, raised in several European cities, and now lives in Paris. A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author of eight books, including the acclaimed biography Franz Werfel: A Life from Prague to Hollywood (1990) and the novels Tigor (Handsel Books, 2004), a finalist for the British Foreign Book Award, and The Perfect American (Handsel Books, 2004), a fictional biography of Walt Disney's last months, which had its premiere as an opera by Philip Glass at Madrid's Teatro Real in January 2013.
David Dollenmayer
David Dollenmayer is Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Berlin Novels of Alred Doblin. He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Also by this translator: The Road to Rescue, The King of Corsica, House of Childhood
