《美人》内容简介
每个小城都有几个“家喻户晓”的美人。八十年代后期,“我”故乡有三个出名的美人:何丽、丽娜、红霞。她们生而美丽,却并未因此获得命运的偏爱;她们给小城带来了美的启蒙与青春怀想,也招致人们的好奇窥探、流言蜚语。三十年岁月年华,美人们在时代巨变和命运倾轧中,看起来柔弱无力随波逐流,却坚持生活并极力寻求自己的幸福,落定为地方的另一种历史。
《美人》是作家张惠雯旅居海外十余年的故土回望之作,以中国北方小城美人的传奇人生、系列故事,折射自二十世纪末中国社会转型以来的历史巨变,追溯一代中国女性的独特成长历程及生命经验,唤醒来自于朴素生命力的柔韧不折的女性力量。
作者简介
张惠雯(1978-),祖籍河南。毕业于新加坡国立大学商学院,现居美国波士顿。已出版短篇小说集《飞鸟和池鱼》《两次相遇》《一瞬的光线、色彩和阴影》《在南方》,散文集《惘然少年时》。曾获新加坡金笔奖、首届《人民文学》新人奖、华侨华人中山文学奖、《上海文学》奖、储吉旺文学大奖、首届曹雪芹华语文学奖大奖等多个奖项。
Introduction to Beauty
Every town has several "household" beauties. In the late 1980s, there were three famous beauties in my hometown: He Li, Lina and Hongxia. They were born beautiful, but they were not favored by fate for it; They brought the town the enlightenment of beauty and youth, but also led to people's curiosity and gossip. Thirty years of time, the beautiful people in The Times of great change and the fate of the rolling, seem weak and weak to drift with the tide, but insist on life and strive to seek their own happiness, settled as another kind of local history.
The Beauty is a series of stories about the legendary life of the beauty in a small town in northern China, reflecting the historical changes since the transformation of Chinese society at the end of the 20th century, tracing the unique growth process and life experience of a generation of Chinese women, and awakening the flexible and unbending female power that comes from simple vitality.
About the author
Zhang Huiwen (1978-) was born in Henan Province. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Business School and now lives in Boston, USA. He has published a collection of short stories "Birds and Pond Fish", "Two Encounters", "A moment of Light, Color and Shadow", "In the South", and a collection of essays "Disconsolate Youth". He has won the Singapore Golden Pen Award, the First New Talent Award of People's Literature, the Overseas Chinese Zhongshan Literature Award, the Shanghai Literature Award, the Chu Jiwang Literature Award, the first Cao Xueqin Chinese Literature Award and other awards.