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《不存在的女孩》：和解只需刹那 　　露丝?尾关（Ruth Ozeki），当代美国与加拿大文坛极受瞩目的作家之一，1956年出生于美国康涅狄格州纽黑文市，父亲是美国人，母亲是日本人。尾关曾于美国史密斯学院攻读英语及亚洲研究专业，后前往日本的奈良大学进修日本古典文学。在日本生活期间，她曾以一名酒吧主人的身份居住在京都，并潜心学习插花、能剧与面具雕刻。在成为一名小说家之前，尾关还是一名电影制片人，制作了数部独立电影，其中影响最大的是她的自传电影《分骨》（Halving the Bones）。1998年，尾关的小说处女作《食肉之年》（My Year of Meats）问世，并于当年入选《纽约时报》（New York Times）年度好书。2003年，她发表了第二部小说《大千世界》（All over Creation），同样广受好评。《不存在的女孩》（A Tale for the Time Being）于2013年出版，是尾关迄今为止最受热捧的一部作品，曾入围英国布克奖短名单、美国国家书评人奖决选名单，并荣获美国图书馆协会最佳小说奖等十几个重量级文学奖项。 Excerpts1） 　　She closed the diary and placed it on the desk as she stroked2） the cat’s forehead， but even after putting the book aside， she was aware of an odd and lingering sense of urgency to … what？ To help the girl？ To save her？ Ridiculous. 《不存在的女孩》英文版封面 　　Her first impulse when she’d started the diary was to read quickly to the end， but the girl’s handwriting was often hard to decipher3）， and her sentences were peppered with slang and intriguing colloquialisms. It had been years since Ruth had lived in Japan， and while she still had a reasonable command of the spoken language， her vocabulary was out of date. In university， Ruth had studied the Japanese classics―The Tale of Genji4）， Noh drama5）， The Pillow Book6）―literature going back hundreds and even thousands of years， but she was only vaguely familiar with Japanese pop culture. Sometimes the girl made an effort to explain， but often she didn’t bother， so Ruth found herself logging on to the internet to investigate and verify the girl’s references， and before long， she had dragged out her old kanji7） dictionary， and was translating and annotating and scribbling notes about Akiba8） and maid cafés， otaku9） and hentai10）. And then there was the anarchist feminist Zen Buddhist novelist nun. 　　She leaned forward and did an Amazon search for Jiko Yasutani11） but， as Nao had warned， found nothing. She googled Nao Yasutani and again came up with nothing. 　　She had better luck with Dgen12）， whose masterwork， Shbgenz， or the Treasury of t