Tales of Accidental Genius

图书信息

作者	Van Booy, Simon
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780062408983
出版时间	2015-11-10
字数	18.5万
分类	Harper Perennial,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy—his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.“She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a definition.”In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in Winter, for which he won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award), bestselling author Simon Van Booy offers a collection of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassion. Through characters including an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician from New Jersey, and a Beijing street vendor who becomes an overnight billionaire, Tales of Accidental Genius contemplates individuals from different cultures, races—rich and poor, young and old—and reveals how faith and yearning for connection helps us all transcend darkness of fear and misfortune.

目录

Dedication

Contents

The Menace of Mile End

The Goldfish

A Slow and Deliberate Disappearance

The Muse

Infidelity

Private Life of a Famous Chinese Film Director

Golden Helper II: An Epic Fable of Wealth, Loneliness, and Cycling

Chinese Translation by Li Chen of Bethel, China Home for Blind and Visually Impaired Orphans

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

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