کتاب لاتاری و داستان های دیگر The Lottery and Other Stories اثر شرلی جکسون Shirley Jackson

عنوان: The Lottery and Other Stories

نویسنده: Shirley Jackson

ژانر: داستان کوتاه، کلاسیک

شرح و توضیحات کتاب لاتاری و داستان های دیگر The Lottery and Other Stories اثر شرلی جکسون:

این کتاب مجموعه ای از داستانهای کوتاه نوشته ی شرلی جکسون، نویسنده ی آمریکایی است که در سال 1949 منتشر شد.  شرلی جکسون  Shirley Jackson نویسنده مشهور آمریکایی است که برای آثار خود در ژانر وحشت و معمایی شهرت دارد. او در طول دو دهه فعالیت نویسندگی خود شش رمان و دو شرح حال و دویست داستان کوتاه نوشت.  در طول عمر ادبی خود، جکسون موفق به کسب جوایز بسیاری از جمله (5 بار) Best American Short Stories و O. Henry Prize Stories و Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award و نیز نامزد دریافت جایزه معتبر National Book Award شد.

این مجموعه ی منحصر بفرد شامل داستان کوتاه مشهور شرلی، لاتاری است که یکی از شوکه کننده ترین و بهترین داستانهای قرن بیستم است که تاثیر قابل توجه ای روی نویسنده های معاصر ژانر وحشت و فانتزی، مثل استفن کینگ Stephen King و نیل گیمن Neil Gaiman ، داشته.

در این مجموعه داستانهایی درباره ی میزبانی میخوانید که مهمانهایش او را از خانه بیرون میکنند، درباره ی زنی که روز عروسی اش را با گشتن به دنبال شوهر آینده اش میگذراند و درباره ی دهکده ای کوچک با رسمی کهن و ترسناک.

نیل گیمن درباره ی مجموعه داستان کوتاه های شرلی جکشون اینطور مینویسد:

This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson’s short stories, including ‘The Lottery’ – one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.

‘Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written’ Donna Tartt

In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson’s best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.

Shirley Jackson’s chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.

‘An amazing writer … if you haven’t read any of her short stories … you have missed out on something marvellous’ Neil Gaiman

‘Her stories are stunning, timeless – as relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published … ‘The Lottery’ is so much an icon in the history of the American short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American psyche, our collective unconscious’ A. M. Homes

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