Olive, Again

　　普立茲文學獎得主伊麗莎白‧斯特勞特，續寫得獎傑作！



　　在前作《生活是頭安靜的獸》中，圍繞著奧麗芙所生活的小鎮，13個短篇故事構築出她與身邊人們的生活，同時也訴說了所有我們共同經歷的情感，與人生中各種處境。



　　在這部同樣擁有13個篇章的續集裡，這個在尖刻、冷酷中包藏真心，令人難以忘懷也難以討厭的女主角，她的人生持續前進。來自傑克的求婚、與媳婦間不睦的關係、身邊支持川普與來自索馬利亞的照護員們、她在養老院建立起的動人友誼……生活一點也不容易，充滿挫折、瑣碎的失望、微小的愉快，誰不是如此呢？



　　斯特勞特再次透過書寫各個角色的生活紋理，將文字深刻寫進讀者心裡。她讓閱讀成為一種安慰：誰的人生不是這樣充滿磨難？(文/博客來編譯)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK - Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions.

＂Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.＂--Zadie Smith, The Guardian

＂Just as wonderful as the original . . . Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life ’not unhappy.’＂--NPR

ONE OF PEOPLE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is ＂a compelling life force＂ (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout ＂animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,＂ and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire us--in Strout’s words--＂to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.＂

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Vogue, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, The New York Public Library, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, BookPage

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.