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Conejo found himself immersed in a futuristic urban landscape, a skyline overloaded with concrete and glass above the smell and feel of the stereotypical China he expected to find, one that he describes as a “tangle of motorcycles, cars, people and noise; a mix of intense food smell from stalls and kitchens, car fumes and a murmur from all this bustle; all this jumble peppered with red lanterns and fortune cats.” Then, as he reached the borders of the city he found a peculiar urban project: a set of nine suburban neighborhoods under construction, mimicking the architectural styles of several iconic European countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Holland and Germany. Built to house the wealthier Chinese population escaping the big-city lifestyle, “One City, Nine Towns” is a thematic urban project launched in 2004 with the goal of relieving overpopulation in Shanghai. These artificial towns, which are replicas of buildings found in the various European locales, are projected to house one million people by 2020.
“At the moment all the towns look like ghost cities,” Conejo says. “The empty streets make them look like Disney World or a cinema set. As a matter of fact, Thames Town, the English imitation, is becoming a very popular location to have one’s wedding photography made.”
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一個誤入婚禮的「來賓」，意外找到重新面對人生的勇氣
這是羅德島州紐波特美好的一天，一位身穿綠色連身裙、腳踩金色高跟鞋、身邊沒帶任何行李的女子走進了高級的康沃爾飯店裡。出眾的氣勢讓她立刻被誤認為蘿拉與蓋瑞的婚禮賓客，但事實上她是菲比．史東，一個兼職的英語教授。她發現丈夫和自己同事搞外遇，毅然決然放棄新一學期的教職邀請，畢竟誰會想天天和丈夫的外遇對象碰面呢？她今天來這間憧憬已久的豪華飯店，是打算吃下愛貓的止痛藥，結束自己生命，根本不是來參加什麼婚禮。
新娘蘿拉為這場婚禮做足了所有盤算和推演，考慮一切可能會發生的問題，卻怎麼也沒想到會出現菲比這號人物。沒想到兩人一見如故，隨著她們分享彼此內心的真實想法和秘密，蘿拉發現了菲比的黑暗計畫，這下她無論如何必須制止這件事的發生！
《The Wedding People》是部充滿溫柔幽默的小說，點出人生路上可能會出現窒礙難行的段落，而能夠幫助我們重新出發的關鍵，往往是萍水相逢的知音。(文／博客來外文館)
The runaway New York Times bestseller with over one million copies sold
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune Biblioracle, HuffPost, US Magazine, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
作者介紹
Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick; and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune and NPR. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, Vogue, Outside, Joyland and other places. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
3. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006)
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