中文简介：

Paul Dalla Rosa的处女作小说集讲述了十个故事，主人公有在餐饮业工作的，有在高端零售业工作的，有因笔记本电脑上的性爱聊天出名的，有因知名电影导演的镜头出名的，有在城市中合租公寓的，还有在马略卡岛度假的，他们在愿望和妄想、野心和漫无目的、精心策划的形象和不可靠的人物之间游走。

Dalla Rosa既不留情面又不乏温情，探讨了我们在资本主义后期的生活，全球化和其虚假的连接承诺让我们进一步被疏远，并被剥夺权利。就像传奇作家Lucia Berlin和当代作家Ottessa Moshfegh一样，Dalla Rosa是一个高超的观察家，也是一个幽默的“开膛手”，在一个丑陋而美丽的世界中寻找意义。

英文简介：

Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, or sharing a flat in the city or a holiday rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa's debut collection navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body.

By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage Capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity leave us further alienated and disenfranchised. Like the legendary Lucia Berlin and his contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer-and hilarious eviscerator-of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world.