《时间边境》内容简介
本书为马来西亚华人女作家贺淑芳首部小说集,汇集十一篇佳作,被黄锦树称为“马华短篇经典表现出的老练成熟”。又以极为细腻和富于画面感的心理笔法,跨越国境与地理差异,切中我们身而为人的每个人,所共有的那些从未被照亮与承认过,却绝非不重要的痛点与内里感受。
在这些小说中,常有无男相无女相的幽灵,搭乘烟霾中的列车回返。原以为终结了旅程,忽又重新开始。逃离某地,想追寻一个新的自我。但又发现这是永不终止的过程,一直摇晃不停。
仿佛跨越了多重时间之海的旅人,自记忆边境另一端寄返给我们的信函,以既梦幻又本真的语言写就。并试图回答一个问题——如果整座世界都是异乡,我们以何为家?
作者简介
贺淑芳是马来西亚作家,1970年出生于马来西亚吉打州。曾获时报文学奖、联合报文学奖、九歌年度小说奖。著有短篇小说集《时间边境》(2012)、《湖面如镜》(2014)以及长篇小说《蜕》(2023)。其中《湖面如镜》已经译成英语与日语,在伦敦、旧金山与东京出版。
《时间边境》这本短篇集收录的小说,是作者于台北念硕士期间直到回国以后一段时期撰写的作品,2013年入围台北书展大奖。
中国台湾政治大学中国文学所硕士、新加坡南洋理工大学博士毕业。曾任工程师、《南洋商报》副刊专题记者、马来西亚金宝拉曼大学中文系讲师。撰写七年后付梓出版的长篇小说《蜕》期间,她曾于2020年夏天,移居台北,在台北艺术大学担任专任助理教授。在淡水居住三年后,于2023年再度返回马来西亚。
A brief introduction to the Time Frontier
This is the first collection of stories by Malaysian Chinese woman writer He Shufong, a collection of eleven masterpieces that Wong called "the sophistication of the MCA short story classics". And with a very delicate and graphic sense of psychological writing, across borders and geographical differences, to the body of each of us as human beings, those who have never been illuminated and acknowledged, but by no means insignificant pain points and inner feelings.
In these novels, there are often ghosts without men or women, returning by train in the haze. I thought the journey was over, and then it started all over again. Running away from somewhere, trying to find a new self. But it turns out that this is a never-ending process, shaking and shaking.
Like travelers across multiple oceans of time, letters are sent back to us from the other side of the border of memory, written in language that is both dreamy and authentic. And try to answer the question - if the whole world is a foreign land, what are we at home?
About the author
She is a Malaysian writer, born in 1970 in Kedah, Malaysia. He has won The Times Literary Award, the United Daily News Literary Award, and the Annual Novel Award of Nine Songs. He is the author of a collection of short stories, "The Frontier of Time" (2012), "A Lake Like a Mirror" (2014), and a novel, "Decaying" (2023). "A Lake Like a Mirror" has been translated into English and Japanese and published in London, San Francisco and Tokyo.
"Time Frontier" is a short collection of novels written by the author during his master's degree in Taipei until his return to China. It was shortlisted for the Taipei Book Fair Award in 2013.
She received her master's degree from the Institute of Chinese Literature, Taiwan Chengchi University, China, and her doctor's degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He used to be an engineer, a special reporter for the supplement of Nanyang Siang Pau, and a lecturer in the Chinese Department of the University of Malaysia. While writing Fu Zi's novel Decaying, which was published seven years later, she moved to Taipei in the summer of 2020 to work as a full-time assistant professor at Taipei University of the Arts. He returned to Malaysia in 2023 after living in Tamsui for three years.