出版界也听到风声了

    从很多方面来看，2011年最热门的小说当属10月份出版的《第一区》（Zone One，科尔森•怀特海德著）。小说的主题是瘟疫夺去了大部分人的生命，幸存的人都变成了僵尸。它是《时尚先生》（Esquire）“秋季最畅销书”。《纽约观察家报》（The New York Observer）称它是“对纽约都市生活最精彩的隐喻”。言外之意是，我们已然沦为行尸走肉。另外，2011年文学小说最近流行的是哪一本？答案是汤姆•佩罗塔的《被遗弃的人》（The leftovers），描写了“被提灾难”（The Rapture，源自希腊文harpazo，被夺、被取及被提。因某种力量，以强迫方式将某人或某物夺走——译者注）中生还者的生活。

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.