Book enthusiasts can look forward with eager anticipation to a wealth of novels, biographies, memoirs, poetry collections, and timely non-fiction works this autumn.
爱书人士今秋可翘首以盼一大批小说、传记、回忆录、诗集及紧扣时事的非虚构佳作。
The following five forthcoming titles are poised to attract considerable attention.
以下五部即将问世的新书,料将引发广泛关注。
Marlon James's fantasy series The Dark Star showcases his otherworldly, boundless imagination to the fullest.
马龙·詹姆斯的奇幻系列《暗星》淋漓尽致地展现了他那超凡脱俗、无边无际的想象力。
In The Lost Ones, he returns to his native Jamaica, the soil that nurtured the brutal realities depicted in his Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings.
在《消失者》中,他重返故土牙买加,以及那片孕育了他荣获布克奖的《七次谋杀的简史》中残酷现实的土壤。
This new work, longlisted for the Booker Prize, revolves around the harrowing events of 1988 when eight gay men were brutally attacked while rehearsing a play.
这部新作入围了布克奖长名单,围绕1988年八名同性恋男子在排练戏剧时惨遭暴行的骇人事件展开。
James deftly weaves together humor, popular culture, compassion, and some profoundly challenging encounters.
詹姆斯巧妙地将幽默、流行文化、悲悯情怀与一些极其艰难的遭遇交织在一起。
"I refuse to believe that any lesson can be drawn from suffering violence," James writes, "except perhaps the constant vigilance against how people betray you."
“我拒绝相信从遭受暴行中能汲取任何教训,”詹姆斯写道,“唯有时刻警惕人们如何背叛你这一点除外。”
Kai Bird is best known for co-authoring American Prometheus with Martin J. Sherwin—a biography of nuclear scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer that later served as the basis for Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer.
凯·伯德最为人所知的成就,莫过于与马丁·J·舍温合著《美国普罗米修斯》——这部关于核科学家J·罗伯特·奥本海默的传记,后来成为克里斯托弗·诺兰荣获奥斯卡奖的影片《奥本海默》的蓝本。
In American Reckoning, he and his wife Susan Goldmark trace the influence of the late political fixer Roy Cohn, from his early days as a senior aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy to his mentorship of a young Donald Trump.
在《美国恶棍》中,他与妻子苏珊·戈德马克一同追溯了已故政治操盘手罗伊·科恩的影响力,从其早年担任参议员约瑟夫·麦卡锡的高级助手,直至他对年轻唐纳德·特朗普的提携与引导。
Drawing on government documents, archival materials, and dozens of interviews, American Reckoning includes a surprise for the authors: Trump "took our cold calls on his personal cellphone multiple times," Bird writes in the acknowledgments.
《美国恶棍》取材于政府文件、档案资料以及数十次访谈,其中令作者颇感意外的是,特朗普“多次用个人手机接听了我们的冷电话”,伯德在致谢部分如此写道。
Trump was "courteous, if not forthcoming," and declined an in-person meeting because, as he told them, "I'm the president. I'm busy. China's on the phone. Russia's on the phone. I can't do this." (September 1)
特朗普“态度客气,虽不愿过多透露回忆”,并婉拒了当面会晤,因为他告诉他们,“我是总统。我很忙。中国在打电话。俄罗斯在打电话。我不能这样做。”(9月1日)
Emma Cline has firmly established herself as a literary master of themes such as alienated minds, the fleeting and theatrical nature of youth, ambition, and deception, rising to prominence above all through her acclaimed debut novel, The Girls.
艾玛·克莱恩已然确立了其作为描绘疏离心灵、青春之短暂与戏剧性、抱负及欺骗等主题的文学巨匠地位,尤以其备受赞誉的处女作《女孩们》声名鹊起。
In Sway, which has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, Cline presents us with a retired businessman whose mind is steadily deteriorating, and who travels to Zurich in search of assisted dying services.
在入围布克奖长名单的《斯威齐》中,克莱恩为我们呈现了一位心智日渐衰退的退休商人,他前往苏黎世寻求辅助死亡服务。
Cline breaks the narrative into short, stark fragments, as this former 'man of worth' confronts his own memories, ultimately arriving at the conclusion: 'He had always stayed on the surface. His whole life.' (September 8)
克莱恩将叙事拆解为简短而冷峻的片段,这位昔日的“有价值之人”直面自己的记忆,最终得出如此结论:“他一直停留在表面。他的一生。”(9月8日)
"The Music Against the Night" is Li Yiyun's sixth novel and her first work since last year's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "All Things Grow in Nature," which relentlessly recounts the suicides of her two sons.
《对抗黑夜的音乐》是李翊云的第六部小说,也是她去年获得普利策奖的回忆录《自然界中万物生长》之后的首部作品,那本回忆录无情地讲述了她两个儿子的自杀。
This time, Li appears to have crafted a markedly different narrative—about a late-18th-century piano prodigy whose fame had largely faded before his death, and the ill-fated decision of an orphaned itinerant musician to marry him.
这一次,李翊云似乎写了一个截然不同的故事——关于一位18世纪末的钢琴神童,其名声在生前几乎已经消退,以及一位成为孤儿的流浪音乐家决定嫁给他的不幸决定。
The novel is concerned with music, yet it also contemplates the "night" and death—parents, friends, children, everyone.
这部小说关乎音乐,但也沉思了“夜晚”与死亡——父母、朋友、孩子,所有人。
"Despair is what one must not yield to," Li writes at the book's close, adding a dark, Shakespearean warning: "A child's death is never neutral for a parent; it is a negation of time, where there is no longer then and now, now and then, now and later, only now, now, now, now, and now."
“绝望是人们不能屈服的,”李翊云在书末写道,并添加了一个黑暗的、莎士比亚式的警告:“孩子的死对父母来说永远不会是中性的;孩子的死是对时间的否定,时间不再有那时和这时,这时和那时,这时和以后,只有这时、这时、这时、这时和这时。”
Memoirs are often regarded as an ideal opportunity for presidents to define their political legacy, even though readers and critics may harbour markedly divergent preoccupations, whether it be Richard Nixon and Watergate or Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
回忆录往往被视为总统界定自身政治遗产的绝佳契机,尽管读者与评论家们可能怀揣迥异的关注焦点,无论是理查德·尼克松与水门事件,抑或比尔·克林顿与莫妮卡·莱温斯基。
Joe Biden naturally tends to focus on his notable achievements, such as defeating Donald Trump in 2020, advancing landmark green energy legislation, and appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
乔·拜登自然倾向于聚焦于其2020年击败唐纳德·特朗普、推动具有里程碑意义的绿色能源立法、以及任命凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊为首位非裔女性最高法院大法官等斐然成就。
However, the public may seek answers they would rather not confront directly, particularly regarding Biden's health during his tenure in the White House, the behind-the-scenes circumstances of his disastrous debate with Trump, and the deeper reasons behind his subsequent decision to withdraw from the re-election race.
然而,公众或许会追寻更多他们不愿直面的答案,尤其是拜登在白宫任职期间的健康状况、他与特朗普那场灾难性辩论的幕后隐情,以及他随后决定退出连任竞选的深层缘由。