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《华盛顿邮报》发布2015年值得关注小说:莫言《蛙》上榜

澎湃新闻记者 林夏
2015-11-19 17:49
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《华盛顿邮报》日前发布了“2015年度值得关注的小说”榜单,莫言小说《蛙》上榜。该小说英文版2015年1月由维京出版社出版。

《蛙》主要讲述的是乡村医生“姑姑”的一生。“姑姑”的父亲是八路军的军医,在胶东一带名气很大。“姑姑”继承衣钵,开始在乡村推行新法接生,很快取代了“老娘婆”们在妇女们心中的地位,用新法接生了一个又一个婴儿。“姑姑”接生的婴儿遍布高密东北乡,可丧生于“姑姑”之手的未及出世的婴儿也遍布高密东北乡。姑姑一面行医,一面带领着自己的徒弟们执行计划生育政策。让已经生育的男人结扎,让已经生育的怀孕妇女流产,成了“姑姑”的两件大事。

小说通过讲述从事妇产科工作50多年的乡村女医生姑姑的人生经历,反映新中国近60年波澜起伏的农村生育史,描述国家为了控制人口剧烈增长、实施计划生育国策所走过的艰巨而复杂的历史过程。

除了莫言,石黑一雄、帕慕克、拉什迪等当代著名作家的作品亦在推荐清单中。

《华盛顿邮报》“2015年度值得关注的小说”:

BATS OF THE REPUBLIC

by Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday)

BEST BOY

by Eli Gottlieb (Liveright)

THE BURIED GIANT

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)

CITY ON FIRE

by Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf)

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PRIMO LEVI

edited by Ann Goldstein, translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf, Ann Goldstein and others (Liveright)

THE COUNTRY OF ICE CREAM STAR

by Sandra Newman (Ecco)

DELICIOUS FOODS

by James Hannaham (Little, Brown)

THE DISCREET HERO

by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

THE DYING GRASS: A Novel of the Nez Perce War

by William T. Vollmann (Viking)

EILEEN

by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)

EPITAPH

by Mary Doria Russell (Ecco)

FINALE: A Novel of the Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon (Pantheon)

FINDERS KEEPERS

by Stephen King (Scribner)

FORGIVENESS 4 YOU

by Ann Bauer (Overlook)

FORTUNE SMILES

by Adam Johnson (Random House)

FROG

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (Viking)

GBH

by Ted Lewis (SoHo)

GET IN TROUBLE: Stories

by Kelly Link (Random House)

GIRL WAITS WITH GUN

by Amy Stewart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

A GOD IN RUINS

by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown)

GOLD FAME CITRUS

by Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead)

GOLDEN AGE

by Jane Smiley (Knopf)

THE GREEN ROAD

by Anne Enright (Norton)

HONEYDEW

by Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown)

I AM RADAR

by Reif Larsen (Penguin Press)

THE ILLUMINATIONS

by Andrew O’Hagan (FSG)

A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN

by Lucia Berlin (FSG)

THE MARE

by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon)

THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES

by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)

MY STRUGGLE: Book Four

by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Archipelago)

OUR SOULS AT NIGHT

by Kent Haruf (Knopf)

SAINT MAIZIE

by Jami Attenberg (Grand Central)

THE SECRET CHORD

by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

A SLANT OF LIGHT

by Jeffrey Lent (Bloomsbury)

A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD

by Anne Tyler (Knopf)

THE STATE WE’RE IN: Maine Stories

by Ann Beattie (Scribner)

THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD

by Elena Ferrante (Europa)

A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND

by Orhan Pamuk (Knopf)

THE STRANGLER VINE

by M.J. Carter (Putnam)

THE SYMPATHIZER

by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove)

THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO DO

by Charles Baxter (Pantheon)

THE TSAR OF LOVE AND TECHNO

by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)

TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS

by Salman Rushdie (Random House)

THE UNFORTUNATES

by Sophie McManus (FSG)

THE VISITING PRIVILEGE: New and Collected Stories

by Joy Williams (Knopf)

THE WATER MUSEUM

by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown)

WE THAT ARE LEFT

by Clare Clark (HMH)

AND WEST IS WEST

by Ron Childress (Algonquin)

WEST OF SUNSET

by Stewart O’Nan (Viking)

A WINDOW OPENS

by Elisabeth Egan (S&S)

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