Merchant

Grunberg, Alexandra

Merchant
  • 出版商: Goldsmiths Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-21
  • 售價: $1,090
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,036
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 352
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1915983053
  • ISBN-13: 9781915983053

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商品描述

A post-apocalyptic retelling of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Who will survive when the world is destroyed? Can stories from the distant past teach us how to change a dismal present? Merchant shifts perspective between three survivors of a flooded world as they try to navigate the threat of mass starvation; Jessica, a patrilineal Jew from Venice (named after the Italian city but located on the mountain K2) who has memorized the complete works of Shakespeare; Cem, an orphan of Venice; and Shinobu, an advisor to the empress Ama in Fuji. Ama has been gifting edible algae blocks to nations worldwide, but Jessica's arrival in Fuji to beg for more food for Venice upsets the delicate international balance Shinobu has been maintaining. As a series of buried secrets and miscommunications carry consequences of potential global destruction, everyone must determine what they are willing to do to survive in a hopeless world.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一部以威廉·莎士比亞的《威尼斯商人》為藍本的末日後敘事作品。

當世界被毀滅時，誰能倖存下來？遙遠的過去故事能否教導我們如何改變絕望的現實？《商人》以三位倖存者的視角來回切換，他們生活在一個被洪水淹沒的世界中，試圖應對大規模飢餓的威脅。傑西卡是一位源自威尼斯的父系猶太人（以義大利城市命名，但位於K2山上），她記憶了莎士比亞的全部作品；塞姆是一位威尼斯的孤兒；而忍是富士山上的女皇阿瑪的顧問。阿瑪一直在向世界各國贈送可食用的藻類塊，但傑西卡為了為威尼斯爭取更多食物而來到富士山，打破了忍一直維持的微妙國際平衡。隨著一系列被埋藏的秘密和溝通不良帶來潛在的全球毀滅後果，每個人都必須決定為了在絕望的世界中生存而願意做出什麼樣的努力。

作者簡介

Alexandra Grunberg attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts earning a BFA in Theatre. She earned her MLitt and DFA in Creative Writing at The University of Glasgow. Grunberg presented her research at various academic conferences in the UK, including "Once and Future Fantasies" at the University of Glasgow, "CRSF 2021 10th Anniversary Conference--Speculative Futures & Survival" by the University of Liverpool, "Beast Modernisms Conference 2019" at The University of Glasgow, "Creative Writing: Processes, Theory, and Influences" at The University of Edinburgh, and "The Literary Self: From Antiquity to the Digital Age" at The University of Edinburgh.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Alexandra Grunberg就讀於紐約大學的Tisch藝術學院，獲得戲劇學士學位。她在格拉斯哥大學獲得了MLitt和DFA的創意寫作學位。Grunberg在英國的各個學術會議上發表了她的研究成果，包括格拉斯哥大學的「Once and Future Fantasies」、利物浦大學的「CRSF 2021 10th Anniversary Conference--Speculative Futures & Survival」、格拉斯哥大學的「Beast Modernisms Conference 2019」、愛丁堡大學的「Creative Writing: Processes, Theory, and Influences」以及愛丁堡大學的「The Literary Self: From Antiquity to the Digital Age」。

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