北方森林
《纽约时报》2023年度十大好书
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North Woods, by Daniel Mason
Mason’s ambitious, kaleidoscopic novel ushers readers over the threshold of a house in the wilds of western Massachusetts and leaves us there for 300 years and almost 400 pages. One after another, in sections interspersed with letters, poems, song lyrics, diary entries, medical case notes, real estate listings, vintage botanical illustrations and assorted ephemera not normally bound into the pages of a novel, we get to know the inhabitants of the place from colonial times to present day. There’s an apple farmer, an abolitionist and a wealthy manufacturer. A pair of beetles. A landscape painter. A ghost. Their lives (and deaths) briefly intersect, but mostly layer over each other in dazzling decoupage. All the while, the natural world looks on — a long-suffering, occasionally destructive presence. Mason is the consummate genial host, inviting you to stay as long as you like and to make of the place what you will.
《北方森林》，丹尼尔·梅森著
梅森雄心勃勃、千变万化的小说带领读者跨过马萨诸塞州西部荒野中一所房子的门槛，在将近400页的篇幅中，带我们在那里度过了300年的时光。在一个接一个的章节中，穿插着信件、诗歌、歌词、日记、病例笔记、房源信息、古老的植物插图和各种通常不会出现在小说中的短暂事件，我们开始了解这个地方从殖民时代到现在的居民。有一个种苹果的农民，一个废奴主义者和一个富有的制造商。一对甲虫。一位风景画家。一个幽灵。他们的生活（和死亡）有短暂的交集，但大多是在令人眼花缭乱的剪纸中相互叠加。与此同时，自然界一直在观望——一个长期受苦，偶尔也具有破坏性的存在。梅森是一位和蔼可亲的主人，他邀请你想住多久就住多久，你可以随心所欲地改造这个地方。
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