作者介绍
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塞西莉
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Cecily Wong
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塞西莉（Cecily）著有三本书。她的首部小说《钻石头》（Diamond Head）（Harper, HarperCollins出版）入选了巴诺书店发掘新好作家的作品集，获得了Elle读者奖，并被评为2015年布鲁克林图书节的最佳处女作。塞西莉也是《美食禁忌：食物探索者指南》（Gastro Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to Food）（Workman Publishi...
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- 图书类型：大众文学
- 作者：Cecily Wong
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出 版 社：Dutton
代理公司：DeFiore/ANA/Lauren Li
页 数：306页
出版时间：2022年夏
代理地区：中国大陆、台湾
审读资料：电子稿
- 联系人：Rights
浏览次数：670
内容简介
从衣衫褴褛到富甲一方，从沉睡的俄勒冈州到高级的纽约，半华裔家庭的他们建立了万花筒——一个闪亮的“全球波西米亚”购物帝国，奢侈品源自印度等地。身形优美的设计专家、家族宠儿——大女儿摩根•布莱顿是最有名的那一个。不过尽管她在家族和媒体中都很受宠，但没有人比莱莉更爱她。聪明但有点儿神经质的莱莉•布莱顿，永远被她姐姐的光芒所掩盖。当一个灾难性的事件摧毁了布莱顿家族的世界时，留给莱莉的是关于她的家庭的问题，这些问题挑战着她的记忆、身份和忠诚。她带着一个不太可能的伙伴开始穿越地球，去寻找她认为最熟悉的人的真相，包括她自己。
《万花筒》以色彩鲜艳、变化多端的万花筒图案为指导，加...
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从衣衫褴褛到富甲一方，从沉睡的俄勒冈州到高级的纽约，半华裔家庭的他们建立了万花筒——一个闪亮的“全球波西米亚”购物帝国，奢侈品源自印度等地。身形优美的设计专家、家族宠儿——大女儿摩根•布莱顿是最有名的那一个。不过尽管她在家族和媒体中都很受宠，但没有人比莱莉更爱她。聪明但有点儿神经质的莱莉•布莱顿，永远被她姐姐的光芒所掩盖。当一个灾难性的事件摧毁了布莱顿家族的世界时，留给莱莉的是关于她的家庭的问题，这些问题挑战着她的记忆、身份和忠诚。她带着一个不太可能的伙伴开始穿越地球，去寻找她认为最熟悉的人的真相，包括她自己。
《万花筒》以色彩鲜艳、变化多端的万花筒图案为指导，加上引人入胜、令人上瘾的故事讲述，既是对一个家庭有缺陷的美国梦的反思，也是对姐妹间珍贵纽带的审视。它还诠释了当紧握的故事最终被释放时，留下的不同类型的爱在成长。莱莉的旅程既具有破坏性又很有趣，既温暖又有智慧，既性感又有转折性，她面对的是自由和旅行、青春和纯真的意义，以及归属感、悲伤和以自己的方式去爱是什么样子。
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媒体评论
“The author balances her characters’ palpable emotions with whip-smart commentary on cultural commodification.... It’s a smash.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
"True to its title, Wong’s overarching account of one family’s business is told with beautiful imagery but reveals individual pieces that show how things are not what they appear to be. This story of people, culture, and lifestyles will be appreciated by readers who enjoy novels involving families and their secrets, like Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You and Jean Kwok’s Searching for Sylvie Lee."
—Library Journal (starred)
“Kaleidoscope unfolds into a novel much bigger than the sum of its parts: a story of family, grief and identity and what it means to make a life out of an 'opportunity, an aberration, scooped up through... unspeakable loss.'"
—Shelf Awareness
"Told in beautiful detail with quippy dialogue. . . . A deftly written family saga that explores—and challenges—the contemporary American dream and the meaning of home and family.”
—Kirkus
“Telling a beautiful and heartbreaking story through fragments of the sisters’ lives, Wong shows how they’ve been shaped by the many experiences they’ve lived through, and how different perspectives can change the way we understand the truth.”
—Booklist
“Sparkling with sharp observations and deeply wise in its insights, Kaleidoscope is a moving portrayal of the tangled knot of sisterhood and the dizzying spiral of grief. Cecily Wong’s dazzling second novel deftly explores the complex push-pull of family and ambition, and the ways we learn to define ourselves in—and out of—our loved ones’ orbits.”
—Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
“Kaleidoscope is a moving story about grief and one prominent family adjusting around a sudden loss. Cecily Wong captures the gradations of loss but also the power of love in the novel, which may be exactly what you need this summer.”
—The Today Show (Today.com), "26 Best Books to Sink Into This Summer"
“Wong’s insightful and compelling novel follows two sisters in a moving and complex look at ambition and success.”
—BuzzFeed
"Evocatively-written and structured like fragments, Kaleidoscope shows what it means to look at family from all angles."
—Zibby Owens, Good Morning America
“Cecily Wong’s Kaleidoscope is an evocative novel about sisterhood, ambition, self-knowledge, and how we carry forward after loss. I imagine many readers will find themselves in these pages.”
—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
“Rich and gorgeously written, Kaleidoscope is a novel of America and of globalization, of sisterly intimacy and of the need for independence. It is pure pleasure to encounter the world through Cecily Wong’s sharp eye and sharper tongue. Here is that rare thing: a story of grief that also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. I never wanted to put it down.”
—Julia Pierpont, bestselling author of Among the Ten Thousand Things
“Kaleidoscope is an ode to the fierce and complicated bond between sisters, to unexpected love, to the pleasures of travel and food and unclaimed afternoons. It traces the way loss can change the shape of a life, honoring the experience of profound grief while, miraculously, reminding us of the beauty to be found in surviving. Intricate, gorgeously written, deeply moving -- I loved this book.”
—Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
"Cecily Wong's voice is assured and so very alive in Kaleidoscope, a transportive and compulsively readable novel exploring loss and longing, sisterhood and survival, and the complex relationships that both mystify and define us. Fierce, sensitive, and beautifully crafted, I didn't want this book to end."
—Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know
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