关于作者
刘按,1982 年出生,中国东北人。现代华语小说家,作品包括长篇与短篇小说集。
关于本书
只要不失去想象力,我们就拥有自由!王家卫发明一个装置,显示此时世界上有多少人正在想你;七个小矮人去天边看“世界上没有的东西”;宇宙尽头厕所的墙上有个小黑点;一朵玫瑰比佛陀更早顿悟;如果可以隔着时空扇耳光,你想扇谁?如果死词博物馆收录了被遗忘的词,孙悟空能否找到他最爱之人的名字?忧伤像永远淋雨的猫,迷茫是跑不出大雾的小男孩……这是属于我们每个人的故事,也是无边的自由与想象力。
About the Author
Liu An, born 1982 in Northeast China, is a contemporary Chinese novelist known for long and short fiction.
About the Book
As long as imagination stays alive, freedom stays ours. A device counts how many people think of you right now; seven dwarfs seek “things that don’t exist”; a black dot on the wall of the toilet at the end of the universe; a rose attains enlightenment before the Buddha; if you could slap across time, who would you choose? In a museum of dead words, can Sun Wukong find his beloved’s name? Melancholy is a cat forever in the rain; confusion is a boy lost in fog. The book is a playful, tender atlas of those shared freedoms.
设计师自述:
♥ ♥ ♥ 這本小說真的很好看!我是這本小說的設計師最高!這本書真的很好看啊!這句話絕對是一語雙關,一箭雙鵰,一石二鳥,你們可以好好看看,真的很好看啊!從小圖可以看出,這本書經歷了紅橙黃綠青藍紫的版本,最終通過直覺選擇出的紫色,書名沿用《宇宙盡頭的廁所》的字體與放大,字撐滿封面,讓其他書變成留白。
拿在手裡會感覺,哪怕是原研哉,也不過如此。因為設計的奧義就是十六字:超級符號、文化母體、貨架思維、購買理由。就盯著“♥”看一會兒,這個世界最有愛的超級符號,誰能不認識?誰又不想知道,“此時世界上有多少人正在想你?”
劉按的寫作讓人欲罷不能:看完就忘,忘了又想看,像可以無限閱讀的魔法。讀《此時世界上有多少人正在想你》時,腦洞一層又一层,像拼多多“還差 0.01”永遠有下一刀。果皮書店聚集的天才們各有風格,而劉按像才華機:創意爆棚,鬼才降臨。這本限量 300 冊的書,很快會賣完;想買的可以趕緊行動。說實話,這本小說真的很好看!
Designer’s Notes
This novel is a blast. The cover went through rainbow trials before settling on a bold purple; we reused the oversize type from “Toilet at the End of the Universe,” letting the title fill the page so other books become its whitespace. A heart is the universal super symbol—who doesn’t read it instantly or wonder “how many are thinking of you right now?”
Liu An’s writing is addictive: you forget and immediately want to reread, like an endless magic trick. The plot keeps opening new doors, a “just 0.01 more” feeling. Among the many talents at kpee books, he’s a “talent engine,” overflowing with ideas. This 300-copy edition will go fast—because the book really is that good.