张爱玲首部英文自传体小说《雷峰塔》继去年轰动中港台的畅销书《小团圆》面世后，今年又一张爱玲遗作即将出版。张爱玲首部英文自传体小说《雷峰塔》将由香港大学出版社出版。

　　The Fall of the Pagoda为张爱玲早于创作《小团圆》而写成的英文小说作品，也是张爱玲首部英文自传体小说合集的上部（下部为The Book of Change《易经》，将于今年九月出版）。小说以二、三十年代的上海为背景，讲述女主角自四岁起母亲放洋海外，其后父母离异、父亲再娶，女主角处身家族成员爱恨纠缠的关系中的成长故事，充满张爱玲童年及少女时代的影子，具有自传色彩。

　　The Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in English, depicts in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, while The Book of Change revolves around her wartime student days in Hong Kong. The Fall of the Pagoda introduces a young girl (called Lute) growing up amid many family entanglements with her divorced mother and spinster aunt during the 1930s in Shanghai’s International Settlement. Both novels shed light on the construction of selfhood in Chang’s other novels, through lengthy discussions of Chang’s difficult relationship with her selfishly demanding mother as well as of intricate dynamics in the extended families who emerged from aristocratic households of the late Qing Dynasty. While the main characters belong to the new Republican period, their worldviews and everyday life are still haunted by the shadows of the past.

作者简介

张爱玲

　　Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland China. She was the most popular writer in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, with English and Chinese stories focusing on human frailties rather than nationalist propaganda. For her non-committal politics and idiosyncrasies, she was boycotted by fellow writers after the war and forced to the margins of literary respectability.