出版界也聽到風聲了

????從很多方面來看，2011年最熱門的小說當屬10月份出版的《第一區》（Zone One，科爾森?懷特海德著）。小說的主題是瘟疫奪去了大部分人的生命，幸存的人都變成了僵尸。它是《時尚先生》（Esquire）“秋季最暢銷書”。《紐約觀察家報》（The New York Observer）稱它是“對紐約都市生活最精彩的隱喻”。言外之意是，我們已然淪為行尸走肉。另外，2011年文學小說最近流行的是哪一本？答案是湯姆?佩羅塔的《被遺棄的人》（The leftovers），描寫了“被提災難”（The Rapture，源自希臘文harpazo，被奪、被取及被提。因某種力量，以強迫方式將某人或某物奪走——譯者注）中生還者的生活。

Publishers know it too

????The biggest novel of the year, by many accounts, was Colson Whitehead's Zone One, published in October. The subject? A plague has wiped out most of humanity and much of the remaining people are zombies. It was Esquire's "Best Book of the Fall." The New York Observer called it a "brilliant allegory of New York City living." In other words, we're basically Zombies already. Oh, and one of this year's other hugely popular releases in the literary fiction world? Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers, which focuses on the lives of the people left after The Rapture takes place.