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穗子
作为严歌苓中短篇小说自选定本中最独特的一部，《穗子》讲述了一个女孩成长的故事，是严歌苓自传式小说集。
篇目包括：《柳腊姐》、《老人鱼》、《角儿朱依锦》、《黑影》、《小顾艳传》、《梨花疫》、《拖鞋大队》、《灰舞鞋》、《奇才》、《耗子》、《我不是精灵》十一部中短篇小说。
主人公穗子成长中的各种人与事，儿时的亲人，少时的同伴，少女时的恋慕对象。
《柳腊姐》：柳腊大概是中国最后一批童养媳，在作者笔下，其风貌、渴望、理想却与今天的女学生并无两样。
《老人鱼》：穗子有个没血缘关系的“外公”本来是抗战英雄，却因为一堆勋章，遭来横祸。
《拖鞋大队》：不折不扣的残酷青春篇，孩童少年狠心、不负责任地伤人，实在是世界一流，“她们”那些以恶报善的行为，几乎天下雷同。
《灰舞鞋》：书中最长一篇，一个“很电影”的爱情故事，“文革”中一个文艺女兵小穗子懵懂的恋爱故事。在那席卷全国的动乱年代，15岁的小穗子爱上了22岁的排长邵东俊，但却不能公开表达，她就偷偷地给心上人写情书。然而邵冬骏却在分队长高爱渝的诱惑下背叛了他们之间的恋情。小穗子写给邵冬骏的160多封情书，也落入了高爱渝之手，并且被公之于众，结果引发了一场轩然大波。命运让穗子在痛苦的情感深渊里依然孤独和脆弱……叛逆的青春少女夹缠在乱世革命、动荡、毁灭和性启蒙之中，笔调却轻快简约。难得的女性视野、历史记忆与个人体验的结合，因为讲述得到升华。
从《天浴》《少女小渔》到《金陵十三衩》《归来》（《陆犯焉识》），严歌苓的作品被一次次搬上大银幕。她的作品因题材丰富、情节动人、画面感强烈而受到张艺谋、陈凯歌、姜文等诸多大牌导演的青睐。她还参与诸多电影的编剧，如电影《梅兰芳》《危险关系》等均取得不错的票房佳绩，其中《天浴》荣获美国影评人协会奖及台湾电影金马奖编剧奖。这些使严歌苓成为了大众眼中的“金牌编剧”。
写作上严歌苓也取得了不凡的成就。她的《扶桑》被美国《洛彬矶时报》评为年度十大畅销书，《赴宴者》荣获华裔美国图书馆协会授予的“小说金奖”，美国《时代》杂志给予整版介绍，英国BBC广播作为“睡前一本书”整篇朗读。此外《小姨多鹤》也收录于中国具有影响力的600本书。
严歌苓的人生经历是则传奇。从部队文工团舞蹈演员、战地记者到美国哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士，获得写作MFA学位，再到好莱坞编剧协会会员，现跟丈夫女儿一起旅居德国，过着恬淡的写字生活。
严歌苓的诸多作品中，中短篇小说是极其重要的组成部分。2014年，严歌苓亲自梳理、严选、修订全部中短篇作品，编为四卷：《少女小渔》《天浴》《穗子》《白蛇》，于同年7月出版。此版本可谓集大成的终极定本。
而其中的《穗子》，是严歌苓自传式小说集，讲述少女穗子的成长经历。成长的记忆，家族、朋友、邻里，以及童少年时的自身影像在梦里萦绕不去，《穗子》毫无疑问是一本自传性质极为浓厚的小说，严歌苓在序言中说：“我和书中主人公穗子的关系，很像成年的我和童年、少年的我在梦中的关系。这部小说是最接近我个人经历的小说，但我拒绝对它的史实性、真实性负责。小说家只需对他（她）作品的文学价值负责。正如世界万般景色，给摄影家一半机会，给画家另一半机会。摄影家无奈之处，是画家得意之时，反过来也一样。” 《穗子》收录了11个故事，以主人公“穗子”贯串全书。
严歌苓
1958年生于上海。作家。好莱坞编剧协会会员。
曾为部队文工团舞蹈演员、战地记者。
1988年入美国哥伦比亚大学。获艺术硕士及写作MFA学位。
现旅居柏林。
篇目包括：《柳腊姐》、《老人鱼》、《角儿朱依锦》、《黑影》、《小顾艳传》、《梨花疫》、《拖鞋大队》、《灰舞鞋》、《奇才》、《耗子》、《我不是精灵》十一部中短篇小说。
主人公穗子成长中的各种人与事，儿时的亲人，少时的同伴，少女时的恋慕对象。
《柳腊姐》：柳腊大概是中国最后一批童养媳，在作者笔下，其风貌、渴望、理想却与今天的女学生并无两样。
《老人鱼》：穗子有个没血缘关系的“外公”本来是抗战英雄，却因为一堆勋章，遭来横祸。
《拖鞋大队》：不折不扣的残酷青春篇，孩童少年狠心、不负责任地伤人，实在是世界一流，“她们”那些以恶报善的行为，几乎天下雷同。
《灰舞鞋》：书中最长一篇，一个“很电影”的爱情故事，“文革”中一个文艺女兵小穗子懵懂的恋爱故事。在那席卷全国的动乱年代，15岁的小穗子爱上了22岁的排长邵东俊，但却不能公开表达，她就偷偷地给心上人写情书。然而邵冬骏却在分队长高爱渝的诱惑下背叛了他们之间的恋情。小穗子写给邵冬骏的160多封情书，也落入了高爱渝之手，并且被公之于众，结果引发了一场轩然大波。命运让穗子在痛苦的情感深渊里依然孤独和脆弱……叛逆的青春少女夹缠在乱世革命、动荡、毁灭和性启蒙之中，笔调却轻快简约。难得的女性视野、历史记忆与个人体验的结合，因为讲述得到升华。
从《天浴》《少女小渔》到《金陵十三衩》《归来》（《陆犯焉识》），严歌苓的作品被一次次搬上大银幕。她的作品因题材丰富、情节动人、画面感强烈而受到张艺谋、陈凯歌、姜文等诸多大牌导演的青睐。她还参与诸多电影的编剧，如电影《梅兰芳》《危险关系》等均取得不错的票房佳绩，其中《天浴》荣获美国影评人协会奖及台湾电影金马奖编剧奖。这些使严歌苓成为了大众眼中的“金牌编剧”。
写作上严歌苓也取得了不凡的成就。她的《扶桑》被美国《洛彬矶时报》评为年度十大畅销书，《赴宴者》荣获华裔美国图书馆协会授予的“小说金奖”，美国《时代》杂志给予整版介绍，英国BBC广播作为“睡前一本书”整篇朗读。此外《小姨多鹤》也收录于中国具有影响力的600本书。
严歌苓的人生经历是则传奇。从部队文工团舞蹈演员、战地记者到美国哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士，获得写作MFA学位，再到好莱坞编剧协会会员，现跟丈夫女儿一起旅居德国，过着恬淡的写字生活。
严歌苓的诸多作品中，中短篇小说是极其重要的组成部分。2014年，严歌苓亲自梳理、严选、修订全部中短篇作品，编为四卷：《少女小渔》《天浴》《穗子》《白蛇》，于同年7月出版。此版本可谓集大成的终极定本。
而其中的《穗子》，是严歌苓自传式小说集，讲述少女穗子的成长经历。成长的记忆，家族、朋友、邻里，以及童少年时的自身影像在梦里萦绕不去，《穗子》毫无疑问是一本自传性质极为浓厚的小说，严歌苓在序言中说：“我和书中主人公穗子的关系，很像成年的我和童年、少年的我在梦中的关系。这部小说是最接近我个人经历的小说，但我拒绝对它的史实性、真实性负责。小说家只需对他（她）作品的文学价值负责。正如世界万般景色，给摄影家一半机会，给画家另一半机会。摄影家无奈之处，是画家得意之时，反过来也一样。” 《穗子》收录了11个故事，以主人公“穗子”贯串全书。
严歌苓
1958年生于上海。作家。好莱坞编剧协会会员。
曾为部队文工团舞蹈演员、战地记者。
1988年入美国哥伦比亚大学。获艺术硕士及写作MFA学位。
现旅居柏林。
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About the author
Geling Yan
83 books231 followersGeling Yan (嚴歌苓) is one of the most acclaimed novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution, starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe.
After serving for over a decade with the PLA (including tours in Tibet and as a war correspondent during the Sino-Vietnam border conflict), Ms. Yan was discharged with a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. She published her first novel in 1986 and ever since has produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, novellas, essays and scripts. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, published by HarperCollins; Little Aunt Crane published in the UK by Random House affiliate Harvill Secker; The Flowers of War, published in the U.S. by The Other Press and elsewhere by Random House's Harvill Secker; The Banquet Bug (The Uninvited in its UK edition - written directly in English); and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, (translated by Cathy Silber) both published by Hyperion in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. She has also published a novella and short story collection called White Snake and Other Stories, translated by Lawrence A. Walker and published by Aunt Lute Books.
Many of Geling Yan's works have been adapted for film and television, including internationally distributed films Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (directed by Joan Chen) and Siao Yu (directed by Sylvia Chang; produced by Ang Lee). Chinese director Zhang Yimou made The Flowers of War, a big-budget film based on her work set during the 1937 Rape of Nanking, starring Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale; Coming Home 归来, based on her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi 陆犯焉识, and One Second 一秒钟, also based on that novel.
Ms. Yan has also written numerous scripts based on her own and other authors' work, both in English and Chinese, including a script for a biopic on the iconic Peking opera star Mei Lanfang for director Chen Kaige (released as Forever Enthralled 梅兰芳) starring Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi. She wrote the script for Dangerous Liaisons 危險關係, a Chinese-language film directed by South Korean director Hur Jin-ho and starring Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong Gun and Cecilia Cheung. Her novel Fang Hua 芳华 is the basis a film of the same name (English title Youth) directed by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚. Her novel A City Called Macau 妈阁是座城 was made into a film directed by Li Shaohong 李少红, released in 2018.
Geling Yan a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of France's Société des Gens de Lettres. She is affiliated with the Hollywood screenwriters' union, Writers' Guild of America, west, and is a former member of the Chinese Writers' Association (中国作家协会).
Geling Yan went to the United States at the end of 1989 for graduate study. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. To date she has published over 40 books in various editions in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, the UK and elsewhere; has won over 30 literary and film awards; and has had her work adapted or written scripts for numerous film, TV and radio works. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Uyghur, and Vietnamese, and her English-language novel The Banquet Bug/The Uninvited was translated into Chinese. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
She has been subject to an unofficial but effective ban in China since March 2020, when she wrote and promulgated an essay on the Chinese government's initial handling of COVID-19. Her future Chinese-language work will be published by her own publishing company, New Song Media GmbH.
For non-Chinese language publishing she is represented by Agence Astier-Pécher.
After serving for over a decade with the PLA (including tours in Tibet and as a war correspondent during the Sino-Vietnam border conflict), Ms. Yan was discharged with a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. She published her first novel in 1986 and ever since has produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, novellas, essays and scripts. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, published by HarperCollins; Little Aunt Crane published in the UK by Random House affiliate Harvill Secker; The Flowers of War, published in the U.S. by The Other Press and elsewhere by Random House's Harvill Secker; The Banquet Bug (The Uninvited in its UK edition - written directly in English); and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, (translated by Cathy Silber) both published by Hyperion in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. She has also published a novella and short story collection called White Snake and Other Stories, translated by Lawrence A. Walker and published by Aunt Lute Books.
Many of Geling Yan's works have been adapted for film and television, including internationally distributed films Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (directed by Joan Chen) and Siao Yu (directed by Sylvia Chang; produced by Ang Lee). Chinese director Zhang Yimou made The Flowers of War, a big-budget film based on her work set during the 1937 Rape of Nanking, starring Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale; Coming Home 归来, based on her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi 陆犯焉识, and One Second 一秒钟, also based on that novel.
Ms. Yan has also written numerous scripts based on her own and other authors' work, both in English and Chinese, including a script for a biopic on the iconic Peking opera star Mei Lanfang for director Chen Kaige (released as Forever Enthralled 梅兰芳) starring Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi. She wrote the script for Dangerous Liaisons 危險關係, a Chinese-language film directed by South Korean director Hur Jin-ho and starring Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong Gun and Cecilia Cheung. Her novel Fang Hua 芳华 is the basis a film of the same name (English title Youth) directed by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚. Her novel A City Called Macau 妈阁是座城 was made into a film directed by Li Shaohong 李少红, released in 2018.
Geling Yan a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of France's Société des Gens de Lettres. She is affiliated with the Hollywood screenwriters' union, Writers' Guild of America, west, and is a former member of the Chinese Writers' Association (中国作家协会).
Geling Yan went to the United States at the end of 1989 for graduate study. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. To date she has published over 40 books in various editions in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, the UK and elsewhere; has won over 30 literary and film awards; and has had her work adapted or written scripts for numerous film, TV and radio works. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Uyghur, and Vietnamese, and her English-language novel The Banquet Bug/The Uninvited was translated into Chinese. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
She has been subject to an unofficial but effective ban in China since March 2020, when she wrote and promulgated an essay on the Chinese government's initial handling of COVID-19. Her future Chinese-language work will be published by her own publishing company, New Song Media GmbH.
For non-Chinese language publishing she is represented by Agence Astier-Pécher.
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January 1, 2020
一个女孩的成长史。外公的部分有点难过，但好像也不能责怪小小的穗子。人的一辈子中就是会有很多让人难过又无能为力的事情吧。
穗子在文工团恋爱的部分，又气又心疼。但是穗子也不后悔吧，年轻时候的爱就是会不顾一切，才没白年轻一回嘛。
穗子在文工团恋爱的部分，又气又心疼。但是穗子也不后悔吧，年轻时候的爱就是会不顾一切，才没白年轻一回嘛。
July 19, 2024
文笔很细腻，笔下人物都充满一种欲望。本能的欲望和时代的精神矛盾。
那只小猫写得倒是挺好。
那只小猫写得倒是挺好。
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