Did your father actually send you a postcard from ravenna ?

您父亲确实从拉文纳给您寄过明信片吗？

I saw a blind man in ravenna , and was struck by the idea .

我在拉文纳看到一个盲人，便产生了创作的想法。

Once , long , long ago , almost forty years back , he passed through ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics .

曾经在很久很久以前，大约四十年前吧，他经过拉文纳时给我寄来了一张这些著名的马赛克的明信片。

Ravenna is famous for its mosaics ; hordes of tourists move from one church to another , craning their necks to glimpse the dim lustre of tiny multicolored smalti high up under dusky vaults .

拉文纳因其马赛克而闻名于世；一群游客从一个教堂来到另一个教堂，伸出脖子去看高处布满灰尘的穹窿上微小多彩的有色玻璃昏暗的光泽。

In this issue , tatyana tolstaya publishes the short story " see the other side . " Here , in a conversation withthe new yorker 's fiction editor , deborah treisman , she sheds light on the perils of becoming a writer , on her family , and on her connection to ravenna .

下面是她跟《纽约人》杂志小说编辑德博拉-特瑞斯曼的一段对话，她讲述了成为一名作家的种种险阻，她的家庭以及与拉文纳的联系。