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断断续续听了大半年，养病这几天终于听完了。看书前需要把crime/mystery fiction抛在脑后，不带任何期待安静地走进一个女孩的叙述中。两条线，一条是早熟的孩童眼中衰败的南方小镇见闻，一条是阴暗扭曲的制毒家族。故事以死亡开头又以死亡告终。在Harriet眼中死亡只是另一个需要破译的谜题，而这个谜题掺杂着对“成人世界”的困惑、恐惧、失望、挫败和沮丧。“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world, no guide, no shelter, but all was miracle and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air?”
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The Little Friend Douban Goodreads
The Little Friend
author:
Donna Tartt
publishing house:
Vintage
2003
- 10
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.