内容简介
一位叫约翰的年轻人，离开了从小生长的南非，来到伦敦。“他”先后在IBM和国际计算机公司从事程序员的工作，物质上的他过着相对衣食无忧的生活，然而精神上的他却陷入了异常苦闷的状态。他渴望摆脱南非对他带来的影响，真正过上伦敦人的生活，却又无法实实在在地融入当地，亦无法彻底割舍与母亲的关联；他渴望获得情感上的抚慰，却无法与其他女孩产生情感上的共鸣；他生性内敛、缺少热情，却又向往诗人般轰轰烈烈的生活……
作者简介
J.M.库切
南非著名小说家，被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。曾两度获得布克奖，并于2003年获得诺贝尔文学奖。1940年出生于南非开普敦，现居澳大利亚。
于是
作家，翻译。著有长篇小说《查无此人》、短篇小说集《你我好时光》、散文集《慌城孤读》等，译有《云游》《证言》《不安之夜》《时间之间》《橘子不是唯一的水果》《后翼弃兵》等三十余部外国文学作品。
Content introduction
A young man named John left South Africa, where he grew up, and came to London. "He" has been in IBM and International computer Company engaged in programmer work, material he lived a relatively wordless life, but mentally he fell into an abnormal state of distress. He longs to break away from the influence of South Africa and truly live the life of a Londoner, but he can't really fit in or completely break away from his mother. He craves emotional comfort but can't empathize with other girls. He is reserved by nature and lacks enthusiasm, but he yearns for a vigorous life like a poet...
About the author
J.M. Coetzee
He is considered by critics to be one of the most important contemporary South African writers. He won the Booker Prize twice and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940, he now lives in Australia.
thereupon
Writer, translator. He is the author of the novel "Check no man", the short story collection "You and I have a good time", the essay collection "Panic City Reading alone", etc., and has translated more than 30 foreign literary works such as "Cloud Travel", "Testimony", "restless night", "Between time", "Oranges are not the only fruit" and "Abandoned soldiers in the back wing".
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