母亲的恋人

 这部1973年的小说由安部公房创作，讲述了一位无名男子放弃自己的身份，头顶一个大纸箱生活的故事。在东京街头游荡时，他遇到了各种各样的人物。

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传说很久以前，大自然在湖边和谐共生，直到邪恶降临。被黑暗欲望蒙蔽的人带来了恐惧、仇恨和死亡。渔民们称之为La Miringua，就是因为你的罪恶而把你拖到湖里的那个。

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.