内容简介:《十八岁给我一个姑娘》作为冯唐北京三部曲《万物生长》的前传,讲述了十七岁的少年秋水逐渐长大成人,并爱上邻家姑娘朱裳的故事。全书在扑面而来的青春味道中,塑造了这一特殊阶段的生命萌动、反叛与思考;刻画出一个身处青春期男孩的内心,并通过男孩群像还原出20世纪80年代少年们眼中的北京。本书为英文翻译版。 Synopsis: Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen is a coming-of-age story set in Beijing in the late eighties and early nineties. The narrator, Qiushui, is a silver-tongued teenage boy whose one constant goal throughout the tumult of puberty is to win the heart of Zhu Shang, a guitar-strumming classmate who is the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen resembles J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Despite having different historical and political contexts, these two books complement each other as they draw upon the universal theme of sexual awakening and discuss the similar concepts of loss of childhood innocence and sheltered life, and the bitter introduction of the harsher yet more exciting world of adulthood.