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Lisa Ko, The Leavers
丽莎•柯 《离去的人》

Ko's first novel, awarded the 2016 Pen/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction, follows Peilan, an adventurous teenager from the village of Minjiang in China to New York, via Bangkok, Amsterdam and Toronto. There, as Polly, she works 13-hour shifts in a garment factory and hopes to pay off $47,000 to the loan shark in a matter of years. (She understands the rules: "Pay now or disappear forever.") But she's pregnant by a neighbour back home, and her new son complicates her life beyond repair. Polly disappears when her son Deming is 10 years old. He is adopted by a professorial couple upstate, but he can't forget his mother and yearns to know what happened. Ko traces the disruptions of immigration and the complexities of first-generation Americans with meticulous detail and sensitivity. (Credit: Algonquin)
丽莎•柯的首部小说《离乡人》获得了2016年美国笔会社会类小说先锋奖。小说主人公佩兰是一名闯荡的少女，她从中国闽江村途径曼谷、阿姆斯特丹、多伦多前往纽约。在那里，她化名波莉，在一家制衣厂每天工作13小时，希望能在几年内还清47000美元（约合人民币32万元）的高利贷。（她清楚借高利贷的规矩：要么立刻还钱，要么永远消失）。但是她怀上了一个老家邻居的孩子，而儿子诞生带来的麻烦彻底毁了她的生活。波莉在儿子戴明10岁的时候消失了。戴明被北部的一对夫妇收养，但是他无法忘记自己的母亲，他渴望知道发生了什么。柯通过细腻敏锐的细节描写探索了移民问题的混乱和美国一代移民的复杂性。（来源：阿尔冈昆出版社）