See How Small

《看看有多小》

Author： Scott Blackwood

Publisher： Little， Brown and Company

One late autumn evening in a Texas town， two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter， set fire to the shop， and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors -- family， witnesses， and suspects -- who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world， human connection tenuous.

Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town and make occasional visitations， trying to connect with and prod to life those they left behind. \"See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart，\" they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision， Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting， beautiful， and enormously powerful new novel.

深秋夜晚的德州小鎮(zhèn)，兩個(gè)陌生人走進(jìn)一家即將打烊的冰淇淋店，綁架了三個(gè)收銀員少女之后，縱火燒店，最后離開。這本書講的是——死難者家屬、目擊者以及嫌疑人的故事，他們必須忍受暴行，而在他們的世界，人情冷漠、正義無存。死后在天空飄著，三個(gè)少女看著這座小鎮(zhèn)，想要和沉浸在無盡傷痛中的親友們聯(lián)系，但這件“小事“卻讓他們永遠(yuǎn)分開，天人永隔。

這是一本令人難忘、好看且強(qiáng)大的小說。