A HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: A Novel
現病史
內容介紹
「這本書直擊了我的心，然後又治癒了它。語言的原始思辯，充滿黑色幽默的智慧，超越早年創傷的年輕女子——緊張感和勝利來自敘說者的生活多麼容易就走向不同的方向：“要克服你的出身，但要保持原本的自己。那會是什麼樣子？這部小說述說了出來，而且很美妙！”——Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories
一部細緻簡潔的小說，透過獨樹一幟的語氣和視野，將醫學實踐轉化為對人性、關懷的意義和毀滅本質的更大探索——進而包含了身體和精神上兩者的辯思。
一位年輕女子作為學生醫生的第一天穿上白色醫生袍，就這樣開始了這部強而有力的處女作，接著，讀者跟隨著書中不知名的述說者經歷屍體解剖、手術輪替、難產、猝死以及與神學院學生的萌芽關係。
在醫院這個動盪不安的世界裡，血液檢查和器官系統的專業語言常常掩蓋了問題的核心，書中的主角從一張床到另一張床，看遍所有病人：從一個死於藥物濫用和肺結核的男人、到一個飽受疼痛危機的孩子，長時間的工作和所受的工作心理折磨，逐漸開始模糊她作為醫生新生活與她逃離終生創傷之間的界限…
《現病史》以精彩、諷刺和尖刻的散文，大膽誠實地思考身體面對完全喪失希望，以及活著的意義。
作者介紹
是一名紐約的神經病學家和緩和治療醫師。她的作品曾見於阿拉斯加季刊評論、美國醫學協會雜誌、新英格蘭醫學雜誌和巴黎評論上。這是她的第一部小說。
書評
“A History of Present Illness is a singular read, full of beauty and wit and monstrous truth. It took me down dark corridors of loss and out into the too bright sunshine again. I’ve never read anything like it. Wholly original and shockingly brilliant.”―Jenny Offill, author of Weather
“This book destroyed my heart, and then restored it. The raw eloquence of the language, the wisdom spiked with gallows humor, the young woman who transcends an early life of damage—the tension and triumph come from how easily the narrator's life could have gone the other way. She wonders: 'To get over what you've come from but to stay who you are. What would that even look like?' It looks like this novel, and it is beautiful.”―Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories
“Nowhere else have I ever encountered such brutal wisdom—about life, about the body, about our shared circumstance as the future dead—delivered with such grace, such largeness of heart. Anna DeForest's fearless, unsparing debut is a life raft thrown out for all of us to cling to.” ―Garielle Lutz, author of The Complete Gary Lutz