Trapped people/被困住的人

This book contains 73 short stories by Irish author William Trevor. Trevor meticulously portrays ordinary, lonely, and lost people trying to make sense of their circumstances and fate, such as the star-crossed lovers in "Office Romance" and "Saturday the 47th." These stories are compassionate, moving, insightful, and often empathetic and heartbreaking. They vividly convey the author's reflections on issues that have long plagued him: lost love, marital infidelity, shirking responsibility, the aging of the body, interpersonal loyalty, and the loneliness of the self. His buildings and gardens come alive, and his descriptions of marriage are equally moving.

本书收录了爱尔兰作家威廉·特雷弗创作的73个短篇小说。特雷弗以精微笔触刻画出一个个孤独、迷失的普通人, 他们都试图理解自身的遭遇和命运, 如《办公室的恋情》和《第四十七个星期六》中不幸的恋人。这些故事富有同情心、感人肺腑、目光敏锐, 且常常令人共情和心碎, 它们生动地传达出作者对长期困扰自己的种种问题的思考: 爱情的失去、婚姻的不忠、对责任的逃避、肉身的衰老、人与人之间的忠诚、自我的孤独。在他笔下, 建筑物和花园栩栩如生, 对婚姻的描写也同样动人。