Here I Am-我来了

作者：Jonathan Safran Foer

书名：Here I Am《我来了》

中文背景：Here I Am《我来了》是乔纳森·萨夫兰·福尔的2016年小说。它讲述了一系列影响华盛顿一个犹太家庭成员的事件，一些评论家认为其中包括了福尔生活的自传体元素。这是弗尔十年来出版的第一部新小说，也是弗尔与法拉、斯特劳斯和吉鲁合著的三本书中的第一部。

英文简介：How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years―a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home―and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear.

Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.