[Event] Teaser Tuesday: The Elephant Vanishes

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers:

One winter, both the boy and the girl came down with the season's terrible influenza, and after drifting for weeks between life and death they lost all memory of their earlier years. When they awoke, their heads were as empty as the young D.H. Lawrence's piggy bank.   - 《The Elephant Vanishes》〈04. On Seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning 〉 by Haruki Murakami (translated by Jay Rubin) 

有一年冬天，兩個人都得了那年流行的惡性流行性感冒，好幾個星期都一直在生死邊緣掙扎的結果，往日的記憶已經完全喪失，當他們醒過來的時候，他們的腦子已經像少年時代的 D.H.勞倫斯的錢筒一樣空空如也。- p24《遇見100%的女孩》〈四月某個晴朗的早晨遇見100%的女孩〉 村上春樹 （賴明珠譯）

英文版《象工場的HAPPY END》裡的共收錄十七個短篇故事，這星期的 teasers 摘錄自第四篇〈遇見100%的女孩〉。很喜歡《The Elephant Vanishes》這本有聲書，每個短篇依故事主角由不同的配音員錄製，村上春樹的短篇故事朗讀起來很像散文詩，簡潔的文字在配音員抑揚頓挫的旁白朗讀下帶些押韻的短篇故事，聽起來很有內心獨白意識流的風格。