小说
卡拉马佐夫兄弟 Douban Goodreads
БРАТЬЯ КАРАМАЗОВЫ
9.8 (214 ratings) author: 陀思妥耶夫斯基 (Ф.М.Достоевский) translator: 荣如德 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 2015 - 2
本书系俄国大作家陀思妥耶夫斯基代表作之一。小说通过一桩真实的弑父案,描写老卡拉马佐夫同三个儿子即两代人之间的尖锐冲突。老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色,独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产,并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。一天黑夜,德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会,便闯入家园,一怒之下,差点儿把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后,躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯乜尔加科夫,悄然杀死老爷,造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案,从而引发了一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示一个错综复杂的社会家庭、道德和人性的悲剧主题,体现了作家一生的最高艺术成就。
永隔一江水 Douban
7.1 (27 ratings) author: 邓安庆 publishing house: 人民文学出版社 2021 - 3
🐏邓安庆迄今为止最成熟的故乡写作
🐏七个短篇小说,相同人物,相同背景,以串珠式结构,首度完整呈现烟火缭绕的“邓垸世界”
🐏从春夏到秋冬,用两个少年玩伴的纯真成长,串起典型中国乡村的悲欢离合、人情冷暖、时代变迁
🐏家庭关系、’留守儿童、孤寡老人、弃女寻亲、重男轻女、乡村教育、代际关系、城乡巨变,切入多种乡村问题
🐏真实鲜活的人物群像,亲切自然的方言乡音,恬静优美的乡野四季,笑泪交织的成长与生命,游荡于隔开我们与父母、城市与乡村、现在与过去的江水中心。
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《永隔一江水》是青年作家邓安庆最新创作的短篇小说集。作品延续了邓安庆最擅长的故乡文学写作,仍围绕作者熟悉的湖北家乡邓垸展开,描摹真实质朴的人物和动人亲切的故事,和作者以往作品《柔软的距离》《纸上王国》《山中的糖果》一同构成一脉相承的“邓垸故事集”。本作品体例上虽属短篇小说集,但各篇的人物和事件勾连紧密,彼此融会贯通,清新温婉的氛围一以贯之,全书又可当作一部长篇来读,行文流畅,人物鲜明,并极有纵深地处理了城乡差异、代际关系、留守儿童、重男轻女等一系列主题,可以称得上邓安庆目前最成熟的一部作品。
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《永隔一江水》里的人物,也都不是凭空创造的,每一个人物都有其原型。这些原型是我熟得不能再熟的亲人们。每年回家吃席的时候,一桌的婶娘叔爷,我挨个看过去,每一个人这几十年来的际遇都在我内心中翻涌。他们中间有一些我写过, 有一些我没写,有一些我合并成为一个人物, 有一些我拆散到其他人物身上。时间累积的力量,体现在他们的额头、发色、皱纹,还有黧黑的手掌、蹒跚的步伐、说话的声调上。这个村庄除开房屋的翻新,基本格局几十年来无大变,我熟悉的这一代人逐渐凋零,新生的一代人也随着年轻的父母飘散各地。也许有一天这个村庄会消亡,我唯一可安慰的是我为它写了一系列的文字,好歹是一点微茫的记录吧。 ——邓安庆
Jan. 21, 2022 read
这种踏踏实实白描写普通人的书真是太戳中我的点了。唯一的缺点就是太短了,都没看够!作者在前言说不想把书写成田园牧歌也不想写成悲情式,想从那种具体而微的细节中生发故事。我想他做到了!
文学 2021 中国 小说 乡土
请照顾好我妈妈 Douban
엄마를 부탁해
8.1 (25 ratings) author: [韩]申京淑 translator: 薛舟 徐丽红 publishing house: 北京联合出版公司 2021 - 3
为了给年迈的父母过生日,五个子女邀请他们来首尔。在首尔的地铁站,妈妈却走失了。丈夫和子女相互 埋怨,散发寻人启事,想方设法寻找她。他们追寻她的踪迹,复原有关她的记忆……这才发现,竟没有一个人真正了解她。
这是我们每个人的故事。我们拼尽全力,离开家乡,一路成长,却终于长成 了父母的客人。
这也是我们每个人的母亲的故事。命运让她出生在无法主宰自己人生的年代,她逐渐忘记少女时代的梦想,成为“母亲”,为家庭和儿女奉献一切,湮灭了自我。可她以令人难以想象的坚韧,繁衍出更多的爱。母亲们犹如空壳,站在今日之你我的身后。我们依赖她却也推开她。
从现在开始,从这本书开始,倾听她的故事,珍惜转瞬即逝的时间,一切都还来得及。
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缔造300万册畅销奇迹的韩国文学神话,
获第五届英仕曼亚洲文学奖。
申京淑是第一位获此奖的女性作家。
Oct. 29, 2021 read
第一章和最后一章非常引人入胜,对母亲隐入我们生活背景里看不到却又无处不在非常有共鸣,用第二人称的写法转换视角也带来关注点的变换以及不同的情绪,但是父亲视角的那章会让我觉得愤怒,他根本不是怀念母亲的角色,而是在怀念一个佣人离开带来的不便!对于过去所做的一切也没有任何的忏悔;最后暗示母亲已经一个人孤独的故去,也让我觉得作者过于残酷无情。这两点让我对本书的评价大打折扣。
韩国 女性 母亲 文学 小说
霍乱时期的爱情 Douban Goodreads
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
9.0 (769 ratings) author: [哥伦比亚] 加西亚·马尔克斯 translator: 杨玲 publishing house: 南海出版公司 2012 - 9
★马尔克斯唯一正式授权,首次完整翻译
★《霍乱时期的爱情》是我最好的作品,是我发自内心的创作。——加西亚•马尔克斯
★这部光芒闪耀、令人心碎的作品是人类有史以来最伟大的爱情小说。——《纽约时报》
《霍乱时期的爱情》是加西亚•马尔克斯获得诺贝尔文学奖之后完成的第一部小说。讲述了一段跨越半个多世纪的爱情史诗,穷尽了所有爱情的可能性:忠贞的、隐秘的、粗暴的、羞怯的、柏拉图式的、放荡的、转瞬即逝的、生死相依的……再现了时光的无情流逝,被誉为“人类有史以来最伟大的爱情小说”,是20世纪最重要的经典文学巨著之一。
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Douban Goodreads Skybridge
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
author: Rachel Joyce publishing house: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2013 - 3
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.

Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyce’s remarkable debut. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.

Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one fascinating character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him—allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years.

And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy.

A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise—and utterly irresistible—storyteller.
Advance praise for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“When it seems almost too late, Harold Fry opens his battered heart and lets the world rush in. This funny, poignant story about an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey moved and inspired me.”—Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank

“There’s tremendous heart in this debut novel by Rachel Joyce, as she probes questions that are as simple as they are profound: Can we begin to live again, and live truly, as ourselves, even in middle age, when all seems ruined? Can we believe in hope when hope seems to have abandoned us? I found myself laughing through tears, rooting for Harold at every step of his journey. I’m still rooting for him.”—Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

“Marvelous! I held my breath at his every blister and cramp, and felt as if by turning the pages, I might help his impossible quest succeed.”—Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

“Harold’s journey is ordinary and extraordinary; it is a journey through the self, through modern society, through time and landscape. It is a funny book, a wise book, a charming book—but never cloying. It’s a book with a savage twist—and yet never seems manipulative. Perhaps because Harold himself is just wonderful. . . . I’m telling you now: I love this book.”—Erica Wagner, The Times (UK)

“The odyssey of a simple man . . . original, subtle and touching.”—Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life
May 31, 2021 read
#audiobook 一个人的朝圣之旅,讲述Harold Fry的赎罪之旅。之前看过中文版,翻译的非常好,很喜欢才听了有声书。讲的很好,但是故事内容却让我失去兴趣,为Quene不值,一片痴心错付了别人。时长9小时57分。2021年听书70时25分。
英文原版 原版 audiobook 英文 小说
The Vanishing Half (Audiobook) Douban
author: Brit Bennett / Shayna Small (Narrator) publishing house: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2020 - 6
Duration: 11:34:06
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!
"Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal
"A story of absolute, universal timelessness ...For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be...." – Entertainment Weekly
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
April 15, 2021 read
#audiobook The Vanishing Half去年goodreds评分最高的历史小说,讲述一对混血双胞胎女孩自年少离家自我认同的故事。故事设定很吸引人但是中段之后很拖沓,很多有意思的点最后都无疾而终,或许都是姐妹两寻找自我的注脚。讲述者在白人黑人男人女人的口音音调之间自由切换,听书的角度来说很过瘾! 时长11时34分,2021年度听书41时45分
身份认同 英文原版 transgendar audiobook 寻找自我
Klara and the Sun Douban Goodreads Goodreads Skybridge
Klara and the Sun
7.7 (27 ratings) author: Kazuo Ishiguro publishing house: Knopf 2021 - 3 other title: Klara and the Sun A novel
Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.
Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
April 5, 2021 read
#audiobook 诺贝尔奖得主石黑一雄的新作,故事情节颇为老套,基本是人工智能牺牲自己拯救人类的套路,但是石黑一雄站在人工智能的角度对人类观察的那种旁观让人着迷。时长10时16分。2021年度听书30时11分
英文原版 石黑一雄 audiobook westwildbookclub 小说
The Pillars of the Earth Douban
author: Ken Follett publishing house: NAL Trade 2002 - 2
'It's such a great read...I got to 800 pages, and I slowed myself down because I didn't want it to end.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Dec. 10, 2020 read
#audiobook 这本ken Follet的中世纪三部曲第一本,中世纪背景下盖教堂的故事。整个故事结构很简单也很符合一般流行小说的结构,好人很好历经苦难终将成功,坏人很坏做尽坏事以后终有恶报。故事有吸引力吸引着我听了46小时56分!真是佩服自己!2020年度听书时长197时12分
历史 英文原版 Ken_Follett audiobook 英国
One for the Money Douban
author: Janet Evanovich publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2004 - 2
Welcome to colorful Trenton, New Jersey, and the wild and wonderful world of Stephanie Plum. In One for the Money, rookie "apprehension agent" Plum may be a bit wet behind the ears, but nobody's gonna take it easy on her; especially her first skip, an ex-cop and murder suspect named Morelli.
Nov. 15, 2020 read
属于那种你都不好意思承认你看过的无聊小说,女主失业后成为赏金猎人,胸大无脑,无智商无武力,一路靠运气升级打怪。本来可以当爽文看,又要加上很多血腥杀人情节,违和感百分百。但是偏偏这一系列出了27本之多!讲的人相对于女主来说年纪偏大,分分钟出戏。凭我开始就要结束的毅力还是听完了!时长8时32分.
英文原版 audiobook Fiction-mystery 美国 英文
Where the Crawdads Sing Douban
7.2 (16 ratings) author: Delia Owens publishing house: Putnam 2018 - 8
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.
July 14, 2020 read
披着女性成长外衣三观极不正确的文字优美逻辑极其不通的小说,我只能给一星 时长12时12分
外国文学 英文 孤独 小说
Dark Matter Douban Goodreads Sukkertoppen Skybridge
Dark Matter
7.2 (14 ratings) author: Blake Crouch publishing house: Crown 2016 - 7 other title: Dark Matter / Dark Matter A Novel
“Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable--something impossible.
Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.
Sept. 12, 2019 read
中间为了找回自己的部分很拖沓,回到原世界之后相对比较精彩。但是也超不过三星,还是无法自原其说
科幻 英文原版 小说 美国
Assassin's Apprentice Douban Goodreads Skybridge
8.6 (7 ratings) author: Robin Hobb publishing house: Spectra 1996 - 3
In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.

Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.
侠隐 Douban
7.6 (24 ratings) author: 张北海 publishing house: 上海人民出版社 2018 - 7
☆姜文电影《邪不压正》原著小说。讲述一个民国初年的侠义故事,在文字中复活北平繁华顶点。
☆走过八千里路云和月,张北海回望老北京的工笔长卷。《侠隐》的写作历时六年,参考了好几百本有关老北京的中英文著作,因而,对三十年代北平的描写确凿、细致,一街一门,一草一木,都符合当时史实,宛如城市在张北海笔下复活。
☆阿城先生称赞《侠隐》具有“贴骨到肉的质感”、“果然好看”。张北海笔下的北京,是一个“有钱人的天堂,老百姓的清平世界”,传统和现代,市井和江湖,中国的和西洋的,平常的和传奇的,融为一炉,它透过今日开放社会的眼光去回望传统,发现其中的美好,并创造一个理想的城市。真正的老北京已经消失,而张北海却用文字使它复活,使它栩栩如生。
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民国年间,北平。
时局暗潮涌动,日本人的势力蠢蠢欲动,抗日活动已自展开。
青年侠士李天然留美归来,为寻找五年前师门血案的元凶,深入古都的胡同巷陌。随着他调查的深入,京城各路人马的斗智斗狠浮出水面,日本特务、亲日分子、豪门旧户、黑帮老大、交际花、外国记者等轮番上阵,一起酝酿着山雨欲来的局势。
胡同深处,四合院里,老百姓的日子仍然优哉游哉地过着。从中秋到冬至,从春节到元宵,再到清明,到端午……直到卢沟桥的那一声枪响。
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《侠隐》开篇而且通篇即在我很熟悉的北京,细节精确,我甚至可以为有兴趣的读者作导游……国际、国家、民间的复杂关系令人惊异,其中个人武功能力展现得又合理又不可思议,是那种贴骨到肉的质感,不涉此前武侠小说一目十行的陈词。果然好看。——阿城
张北海所依赖的,不是悼亡伤逝的情绪,而是文字的再现力量。他是在跨越时空的睽违,观看北京当年的回光返照。除了怀旧,他更要创造他的理想城市。——王德威
皮影戏般的飞侠、戏台上的爱情对白,乃至大型战争场景的动员及历史幻景,全在不忍删除的细微末节知识掌故中,边界模糊而让人相信“在1937年的北京城里,真的曾经存在过那样一座城市”。——骆以军
张北海的《侠隐》,就是写了一个人世间的侠士。——王安忆
《侠隐》以久违了的扎实的笔触与沉稳的心迹、干净的文字和严谨老道的叙事方式,特别是意在笔先,认真做足了功课,稔熟于心地融入了大量的老北京地理和民俗民风,真的是地道,写得那样韵味醇厚,精描细刻,逸笔氤氲,宛若一帧墨渍淋漓的水墨画。——肖复兴
读了《侠隐》,勾起乡愁。——高晓松
张北海的文字简约,笔法从容、潇洒,洋味十足,阿城谓之曰“风度”,并认为他的写作已经形成了个人独特的白话文“文体”。张北海写“侠”,他本身也是个“游侠”,游历于东西方之间,在传统和现代之间从容摆渡。与这样一个作家相遇,遭遇久违的干净优雅的现代汉语,将是一件幸福的事。——北京青年报(2007)
(《一瓢纽约》里)张北海的奇思妙想和妙语连珠让我们佩服得五体投地。他的内里像木心,笔触像董桥,情怀上多少有点钟阿城。忽然想起他唯一一部小说《侠隐》中的主人公李天然,也是个淡定从容、神乎其神的角色,真像他自己啊。——北京青年报(2015)
张北海希望在故事里再现的真实不拘于人、事,还要有老北京真实的原貌。动笔前两年,他整理了一份民国二十四年,也就是1935年的“北平街道图”,收集了几百本关于老北京的参考资料,其中一半是英文著作,里面甚至还有英国人在当时写的旅游攻略。依照这些文本,张北海在笔下用当时北平日常的衣食住行、街容巷貌构建出了当日的政治、经济、文化。——三联生活周刊(2015)
他身上确有一种吸引人的派头儿。很难说清是因为读了发生在北平的《侠隐》之后,又听他张嘴一口流利的京腔儿,让人感到的那种老北京的亲切从容,还是因为读了他笔下的纽约,又见他年近80岁依然棒球帽、牛仔裤配白色匡威球鞋的装扮,言语间还透出对反叛的欣赏及侠义的追求,而想到张艾嘉对他的形容,“中国最后一位老嬉皮”。总之,他自己的故事很可能比他写的故事还要好看。——南方周末(2015)
The Rosie Project Douban
author: 格雷姆·辛浦生 publishing house: Michael Joseph 2013 - 4
'Marvellous' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
'Adorable... A gem of a book' Marian Keyes
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobsters...
Meet Don Tillman.
Don is getting married.
He just doesn't know who to yet.
But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman.
One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie.
Absolutely, completely, definitely not.
Telling the story of Rosie and Don, Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is an international phenomenon, sold in over thirty countries - and counting.
Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is, Don has rather high standards and doesn't really do flexible so, despite lots of takers - he looks like Gregory Peck - he's not having much success in identifying The One.
When Rosie Jarman comes to his office, Don assumes it's to apply for the Wife Project - and duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes, drinks, doesn't eat meat, and is incapable of punctuality. However, Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman and is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father.
Sometimes, though, you don't find love: love finds you...
Like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a truly distinctive debut. With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the romance of David Nicholls' One Day, it's both funny and endearing - and is set to become the feel-good novel of 2013...
July 17, 2018 read
第一二章不错,后面流于俗套。有很强的谢耳朵即视感
2018 小说 英文原著
The Kite Runner Douban
7.8 (9 ratings) author: [阿富汗] 卡勒德·胡赛尼 publishing house: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2004 - 5
《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作,霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周,声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼,很长一段时日,让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题,都交织在这部惊世之作里:爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德
★一个阿富汗作家的处女作
★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事,深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典
★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书
★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书
★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军
★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜,声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》
“许多年过去了,人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬,然而我终于明白这是错的,因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘,我意识到在过去二十六年里,自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。”
《华盛顿邮报》认为:“没有虚矫赘文,没有无病呻吟,只有精炼的篇章,细腻勾勒家庭与友谊,背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来,轻笔淡描,近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。”
12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而,在一场风筝比赛后,发生了一件悲惨不堪的事,阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。
成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪,阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡,希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力,却发现一个惊天谎言,儿时的噩梦再度重演,阿米尔该如何抉择?
小说如此残忍而又美丽,作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎,读来令人荡气回肠。
Book Description
This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace.
Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.
--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)17.8                 width:(cm)11.1
March 4, 2016 read
很喜欢这本小说,分别看了中文版,听了英文电子书还看了电影。错了就是错了,赎罪也无济于事。随便说一句,作者的第二本灿烂千阳真是超烂。
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The Shawshank Redemption Douban
author: 斯蒂芬·金 publishing house: Signet 1994 - 9
In The Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of bloody murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in this sinister slammer, and a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's far too late.
And brace yourself for icy shock in three more stunning novellas of suspense. Four young boys come face to face with life, death, and hints of their own mortality...a teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil...a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death. The greatest horror master of our time turns the screws of suspense to lock you into 'terrifying tension and nerve-tingling twists.
Gone Girl Douban
8.2 (22 ratings) author: [美国] Gillian Flynn publishing house: Crown Publishing Group 2012 - 6
Marriage can be a real killer.
One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed thather work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl ’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge . Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
With herrazor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.
Catching Fire Douban
Catching Fire - The Second Book of THE HUNGER GAMES
author: 苏珊娜·柯林斯 2009 - 1
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
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The Hunger Games
7.7 (47 ratings) author: [美] Suzanne Collins publishing house: Scholastic Press 2008 - 9 other title: The Hunger Games / The Hunger Games The First Book of the Hunger Games
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
步步惊心(上下) Douban
7.2 (17 ratings) author: 桐华 publishing house: 花山文艺出版社 2009 - 2
原本繁华都市的白领女子穿越后成为倔强、任性的“拼命十三妹”若曦。她带着 对清史的洞悉卷入这场九王夺嫡的争斗中,不断地与命运抗争或妥协。她明知道 历史的走向,也知道站在谁一边才是明智的选择,可这里有她深爱之人,于是, 她只能处处为营,步步惊心。
到底康熙会给若曦安排怎样的未来?男人的成王败寇之间,会容得下一个女人的 烙印吗?若曦最后选择的是温润如玉的八阿哥,还是面冷心热的四阿哥,又或是 其他人呢?结局永远出人意料!请跟随马尔泰·若曦一同进入这个爱也惊心、恨也惊心的故事。