伊丽莎白·斯特劳特这个名字,对于大部分中国读者来说或许是一个全然陌生的名字,但这并不影响她的作品是一部伟大的作品,一如这部于2009年获得了普利策文学奖的《奥丽芙·基特里奇》,书中以平淡内敛的文字描绘了一个小镇上普通人的悲欢离合。在这部小说集中,伊丽莎白·斯特劳特借由十三个短篇小说串起了全书的脉络,或许以长篇小说形容这一部书更为贴切,毕竟,若是漏读了其中 Elizabeth Stroud’s name, for most Chinese readers may be a totally strange name, but this does not affect her work is a great piece, as this Department in 2009 won the Puli Policy literary award “Oliv Ki Kitridge”, the book with a plain and reserved text depicts the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in a small town. In this novel, Elizabeth Strott strikes the context of the book with thirteen short stories, perhaps a novel more aptly described as a book that, after all,