篇小说集。这里介绍其中一篇“阿拉比夜市”。描写作者还是男孩时,生活在都柏林陋巷,常和一些男孩在街头玩耍,对一个邻居男孩的姐姐产生单相思的雏恋(英文叫unrequited calf-love)。某日远郊举行夜市(night bazaar),他答应去给这少女买一个礼物。但不近人情的家长叔父很迟才给男孩零用钱,赶到夜市已近关门结束时,剩钱又无几,空手而归,又痛苦又恼恨。此篇特点用极简练的文字写出男孩的所见和所感,确切地传递了情绪和气氛。 Collection of novels. Here is an article about the “Arrabis Night Market”. When the author was still a boy, he lived in Dublin Alley, often playing with some boys on the street, and gave birth to unrequited love (unrequited calf-love) for a neighbor boy’s sister. A night bazaar was held in a distant suburb and he promised to buy a gift for the girl. However, unfriendly parents and uncles gave the boy pocket money very late. When the night market was nearly closed, there was little leftover money. He was left empty-handed and painful and angry. This feature uses extremely concise words to write what the boy sees and feels. It conveys emotion and atmosphere.