書蟲5級 園會

短篇小說就像是一張張照片，抓住人們生活中的某一瞬間并將這一記憶永久封存。它們就在那兒，或微笑，或蹙眉，或憂傷，或快樂，或嚴肅，或驚奇……在這微笑和蹙眉的背后，是生活中的所有經(jīng)歷，有恐懼和喜悅，也有希望和夢想。

這些敏銳而又優(yōu)雅的故事給我們展示的是平凡人的生活，以及構成平凡人生活的瑣碎而又微不足道的小事情。其中包括一次園會和一起死亡事件;一次拼命找工作的經(jīng)歷;一次孤獨的跨越歐洲的火車旅行;與一位身藏危險秘密的女人的相遇。還有不近人情的孩子們;年輕姑娘第一次參加舞會時的感受;女主人的貼身女仆的想法;以及新西蘭偏僻農場中一個女人的故事。

我們從巴黎一位藝術家的畫室開始我們的故事，這個年輕人對于周圍的女人們來說是個謎……

Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever. There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised... And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experiences of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams.

These sensitive and delicate stories give us pictures of ordinary people, and of the small, unimportant events that shape their lives. There is a garden party and a death, a desperate search for work, a journey alone across Europe by train, a meeting with a woman who has a dangerous secret. There are children being cruel, the feelings of a young girl at her first dance, the thoughts of a lady's maid, and of a woman on a lonely farm in New Zealand.

We begin in an artist's studio in Paris, with a young man who is a mystery to the women around him...