基本信息出版社：Picador
页码：240 页
出版日期：2004年04月
ISBN：0330493426
International Standard Book Number：0330493426
条形码：9780330493420
EAN：9780330493420
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Lucky Girls is a collection of five stories, set in India and Southeast Asia, narrated by young women who find themselves face to face with the compelling circumstances of adult love. Living in unfamiliar places, according to new and often frightening rules, these characters become vulnerable in unexpected ways-and learn, as a result, to articulate the romantic attraction to landscapes and cultures that are strange to them. In "Lucky Girls", an American woman who has been involved in five-year affair with an Indian man feels bound, after his death, to her memories of him, and to her adopted country. The protagonist of "Outside the Eastern Gate" returns to her childhood home in Delhi, where her mother, years before, abandoned the family for a dangerous journey across the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. And in "Letter from the Last Bastion", a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a middle-aged novelist, who confides in her the secret truth of his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. "Lucky Girls" marks the arrival of a writer whose clarity of intellect and emotion set her among today's most gifted and exciting young voices.
作者简介 Nell Freudenberger graduated in 1997 from Harvard University where she won numerous awards for her writing. Her short stories have been published in both Granta and The New Yorker. Lucky Girls is her first book.