张翎是海外华文作家的佼佼者,其小说在中国有较大影响。近期,她出版了新作《劳燕》。小说以抗战为背景,围绕一个叫“月湖”的江南水乡,书写了一段战争往事。与惯常的战争题材小说不同,《劳燕》无意对战事进行大篇幅的描写,而是以细腻的笔触刻画了几个因战争而产生命运纠葛的人物,将主题切入时代洪流中的人性裂变,加之作家的他乡视角,让小说无论 Zhang Ling is a leader of overseas Chinese writers, whose novels have a greater influence in China. Recently, she published a new work “Laoyan”. In the context of the war of resistance against Japan, the novel has written a long history of war around a water town called Jiang Yue called Moon Lake. Different from the usual war novels, “Laoyan” does not intend to carry out a lengthy description of the war. Instead, he describes the characters who have suffered from the fate of the war with delicate brush strokes, divides the theme into the fission of human nature in the torrent of the times, Combined with the author’s hometown perspective, no matter the novel