小说
搬山1·開山破煞 Douban Goodreads
author:
豆子惹的禍
publishing house:
鮮鮮文化
2011
- 2
三百年前,梁氏一脈獲罪,後世子孫永為罪戶。
身為罪戶後代,梁辛本以為今生再無出頭之日,不料三百年前侍奉梁家先祖的鬼僕趕來報恩……
梁辛不明白:
祖爺爺梁一二究竟犯了什麼滔天大罪,連累他們這些後世子孫,淪為罪戶?
梁辛還不明白:
大山深處,怎麼會有一群穿著朝廷官服的猴子?
梁辛更不明白:
到底……什麼叫做搬山?
修天悟道,要斬滅凡情,不為外物所動,沒有世間寵辱,修士眼中,只有天道……
但梁辛卻是個例外。
看到親人享福,梁辛笑逐顏開;看到朋友生氣,梁辛憤憤不平;看到美貌女子從身邊經過,梁辛會忍不住用力嗅一嗅飄過的裊裊香風……
因為一顆凡心,所以梁辛是人,天下人間,就是梁辛的幸福家園。
是以,如果必須在仙與人之間做一個選擇,梁辛會毫不猶豫的決定:
搬山!
身為罪戶後代,梁辛本以為今生再無出頭之日,不料三百年前侍奉梁家先祖的鬼僕趕來報恩……
梁辛不明白:
祖爺爺梁一二究竟犯了什麼滔天大罪,連累他們這些後世子孫,淪為罪戶?
梁辛還不明白:
大山深處,怎麼會有一群穿著朝廷官服的猴子?
梁辛更不明白:
到底……什麼叫做搬山?
修天悟道,要斬滅凡情,不為外物所動,沒有世間寵辱,修士眼中,只有天道……
但梁辛卻是個例外。
看到親人享福,梁辛笑逐顏開;看到朋友生氣,梁辛憤憤不平;看到美貌女子從身邊經過,梁辛會忍不住用力嗅一嗅飄過的裊裊香風……
因為一顆凡心,所以梁辛是人,天下人間,就是梁辛的幸福家園。
是以,如果必須在仙與人之間做一個選擇,梁辛會毫不猶豫的決定:
搬山!
A Thousand Splendid Suns Douban
author:
[阿富汗] 卡勒德·胡赛尼
publishing house:
Simon & Schuster Audio
2007
- 5
A FTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON THE BESTSELLER LISTS, K HALED H OSSEINI RETURNS WITH A BEAUTIFUL, RIVETING, AND HAUNTING NOVEL OF ENORMOUS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives -- the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness -- are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love -- a stunning accomplishment.
And the Mountains Echoed Douban Skybridge
author:
[阿富汗] 卡勒德·胡赛尼
publishing house:
Penguin Group (USA)
2013
- 5
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.
Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
Editorial Reviews
From Barnes & Noble
After his triumphant novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini gifts us with a poignant story of love, loss, and recovery across several families and over several generations. Like an intricately woven tapestry, And the Mountains Echoed pulls us into the lives of disparate children, men, and women in Afghanistan, France, Greece, and California, showing us how the choices they and other make resonate over decades. A masterpiece; superlative early reviews.
The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
…his most assured and emotionally gripping story yet, more fluent and ambitious than The Kite Runner, more narratively complex than A Thousand Splendid Suns…Mr. Hosseini's narrative gifts have deepened over the years, enabling him to anchor firmly the more maudlin aspects of his tale in genuine emotion and fine-grained details. And so we finish this novel with an intimate understanding of who his characters are and how they've defined themselves over the years through the choices they have made between duty and freedom, familial responsibilities and independence, loyalty to home and exile abroad.
The Washington Post - Marcela Valdes
Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith when a popular novelist shows a decided preference for moral complexity. It suggests that readers crave more than simplistic escape. Or perhaps it just means that some writers, like Khaled Hosseini, know how to whisk rough moral fiber into something exquisite…Over and over again, he takes complicated characters and roasts them slowly, forcing us to revise our judgments about them and to recognize the good in the bad and vice versa.
Publishers Weekly
Hosseini’s third novel (after A Thousand Splendid Suns) follows a close-knit but oft-separated Afghan family through love, wars, and losses more painful than death. The story opens in 1952 in the village of Shadbagh, outside of Kabul, as a laborer, Kaboor, relates a haunting parable of triumph and loss to his son, Abdullah. The novel’s core, however, is the sale for adoption of the Kaboor’s three-year-old daughter, Pari, to the wealthy poet Nila Wahdati and her husband, Suleiman, by Pari’s step-uncle Nabi. The split is particularly difficult for Abdullah, who took care of his sister after their mother’s death. Once Suleiman has a stroke, Nila leaves him to Nabi’s care and takes Pari to live in Paris. Much later, during the U.S. occupation, the dying Nabi makes Markos, a Greek plastic surgeon now renting the Wahdati house, promise to find Pari and give her a letter containing the truth. The beautiful writing, full of universal truths of loss and identity, makes each section a jewel, even if the bigger picture, which eventually expands to include Pari’s life in France, sometimes feels disjointed. Still, Hosseini’s eye for detail and emotional geography makes this a haunting read. Agent: Robert Barnett, Williams & Connolly. (May)
Daily Beast
Wrought with mastery, And the Mountains Echoed is not just a well spun tale, but an accomplishment of the most elusive of literary challenges—the humanization of a war ravaged population in the eyes of the very people complicit in their ruin.
San Francisco Chronicle
There is an assured, charismatic new maturity to Hosseini's voice. When he hits his stride, the results are electrifying.
Boston Globe
Hosseini delves into the joys, sorrows, and betrayals that alternately bind and fracture families. Once again, Hosseini's lovingly rendered Afghanistan takes center stage, but in this book he extends his examination to encompass how the Afghan identity affects his characters' decisions and lives in unfamiliar environments.
Los Angles Times
[Hosseini's] beautifully written, masterfully crafted new book, And the Mountains Echoed, spans nearly 60 years of Afghan history as it investigates the consequences of a desperate act that scars two young lives and resonates through many others. . . . And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love.
The Miami Herald
Compulsively readable, in large part because [Hosseini] probes his characters' psyches in a nuanced and poetic manner . . . And the Mountains Echoed attains a greater level of complexity than its two predecessors . . . and signals the ongoing maturation of a gifted storyteller.
Austin Chronicle
Readers' tears may fall by first chapter's end. Introspective and perfectly paced, Hosseini's microcosmic plot spares no expense with sensory details...Hosseini skillfully weaves the tapestry with universal elements: human fallibility, innate goodness, perseverance, forgiveness, sexuality, jealousy, companionship, and joy.... And the Mountains Echoed resonates to the core.
Kirkus Reviews
After two stellar novels set (mostly) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini's third tacks among Afghanistan, California, France and Greece to explore the effect of the Afghan diaspora on identity. It begins powerfully in 1952. Saboor is a dirt-poor day laborer in a village two days walk from Kabul. His first wife died giving birth to their daughter Pari, who's now 4 and has been raised lovingly by her brother, 10-year-old Abdullah; two peas in a pod, but "leftovers" in the eyes of Parwana, Saboor's second wife. Saboor's brother-in-law Nabi is a cook/chauffeur for a wealthy, childless couple in Kabul; he helps arrange the sale of Pari to the couple, breaking Abdullah's heart. The drama does nothing to prepare us for the coming leaps in time and place. Nabi's own story comes next in a posthumous tell-all letter (creaky device) to Markos, the Greek plastic surgeon who occupies the Kabul house from 2002 onwards. Nabi confesses his guilt in facilitating the sale of Pari and describes the adoptive couple: his boss Suleiman, a gay man secretly in love with him, and his wife, Nila, a half-French poet who high-tails it to France with Pari after Suleiman has a stroke. There follow the stories of mother and daughter in Paris, Markos' childhood in Greece (an irrelevance), the return to Kabul of expat cousins from California and the Afghan warlord who stole the old village. Missing is the viselike tension of the earlier novels. It's true that betrayal is a constant theme, as it was in The Kite Runner, but it doesn't work as a glue. And identity? Hosseini struggles to convince us that Pari becomes a well-integrated Frenchwoman. The stories spill from Hosseini's bountiful imagination, but they compete against each other, denying the novel a catalyst; the result is a bloated, unwieldy work.
Library Journal
This bittersweet family saga spans six decades and transports readers from Afghanistan to France, Greece, and the United States. Hosseini (The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns) weaves a gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. Siblings Pari and Abdullah are cruelly separated at childhood. A disfigured young woman, Thalia is abandoned by her mother and learns to love herself under the tutelage of a surrogate. Markos, a doctor who travels the world healing strangers, avoids his sick mother back home. A feminist poet, Nila Wahdatire, reinvents herself through an artful magazine interview, and Nabi, who is burdened by a past deed, leaves a letter of explanation. Each character tells his or her version of the same story of selfishness and selflessness, acceptance and forgiveness, but most important, of love in all its complex iterations. VERDICT In this uplifting and deeply satisfying book, Hosseini displays an optimism not so obvious in his previous works. Readers will be clamoring for it. [See Prepub Alert, 11/04/12.]—Sally Bissell, Lee Cty. Lib. Syst., Estero, FL
The Barnes & Noble Review
Each of Khaled Hosseini's three novels — The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and now And the Mountains Echoed — begins with a betrayal and then gradually finds its way toward an unexpected redemption. Each includes within its cast of characters at least one orphaned or abandoned child. In all three books, the author exhibits an unabashed didacticism, using plainspoken family dramas to convey the complex recent history and culture of Afghanistan to multitudes of readers in America and around the world. (To date, more than 10 million copies of Hosseini's books have been sold in the U.S. alone.) Yet in each of the books the author's allegiance is above all to the story, from which he has stripped away most stylistic enhancements, reducing his tale to its emotional essence. To Hosseini's detractors, his narrative purity comes off as trite earnestness. To his legions of fans it's a virtue, a hallmark of credibility and consistency.
For all these similarities among Hosseini's novels, it's their differences that are more interesting and instructive. By paying attention to those differences, which are chiefly structural, one can follow the evolution of Hosseini's refinement as a storyteller. The Kite Runner traced a more or less straightforward line from the narrator's childhood in 1960s–'70s Kabul to his adult life in Northern California around the turn of the millennium. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, instead of telling a single story from a single point of view, Hosseini abruptly switched characters partway through the novel and started again, ultimately weaving both halves of the narrative together. It was a risk, but it worked: the fracturing of the story mirrored the fracturing of Afghanistan's social structure during three decades of violent instability, from the Soviet invasion beginning in December 1979 through a prolonged civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and American military involvement after September 11, 2001.
Hosseini's third book is even more structurally sophisticated. "You want a story and I will tell you one," it begins, but in fact And the Mountains Echoed contains many stories, starting over not just once but many times, as it ranges capriciously through varying points of view and time periods and far-flung locations.
Once again Hosseini begins, classically, with a simple family tale. In 1952, in a remote Afghan village called Shadbagh, a penniless day laborer is compelled to sell his three-year-old daughter to a wealthy childless couple in Kabul in order to sustain his wife and remaining children. The little daughter, named Pari, has a deep mutual bond with her ten-year-old brother, Abdullah, who until now has been her main caregiver. The grief and guilt that this forced separation inflicts on all the family members will flare up periodically throughout their lives. It will spread over continents, too, since Pari will eventually spend most of her life in France, and Abdullah will emigrate to America as an adult, in 1982.
Hosseini's intention is to show how stubbornly a homeland manages to cling to a person, in strange and diluted ways, even after years of dispersion and assimilation. Thus we note that Pari, who has lived in Paris since her adoptive mother moved her there from Kabul when she was six, has twinges of recovered memory of Shadbagh and her unmentioned birth family, "like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled." And we see Abdullah, transplanted to the San Francisco Bay Area, educating his American daughter with lessons in Farsi and the Koran and slaving away in his restaurant, Abe's Kabob House, with its tourist-friendly menu of "Caravan Kabob, Khyber Pass Pilaf, Silk Route Chicken," and - - notes his sharp-eyed daughter — "the badly framed poster of the Afghan girl from National Geographic, the one with the eyes — like they had passed an ordinance that every single Afghan restaurant had to have her eyes staring back from the wall."
It's not only these central characters who feel the presence of their origins as if they were gingerly touching an old wound. There is Idris Bashiri, Abdullah's Bay Area doctor, who wrestles with his guilt as a privileged Westernized Afghan when he travels to his hometown of Kabul and sees the suffering of a population ravaged by ongoing privation and war. There is Markos Varvaris, a plastic surgeon and relief worker in Kabul who grew up on the Greek island of Tinos, attempting to bury the pain of his difficult childhood by aiding the disadvantaged in hotspots around the world. And there is Gholam, a thirteen-year-old Afghan boy made cynical by years of displacement in a refugee camp in Pakistan, who returns to his village with his family to find that their land has been stolen by a drug warlord.
These are all separate stories, yet Hosseini takes care to connect each of them, in roundabout ways, to the central narrative of Pari and Abdullah's ruptured family. By tracing the paths of many characters from their birthplaces to various diasporas, he has expanded his familiar themes of betrayal and redemption into a narrative edifice that is much grander than the plainer architecture of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. And he has accomplished this without losing the homespun emotional forcefulness that distinguished those earlier novels. An author with a less urgent calling might be willing merely to manage the brand of his or her success, recycling the same magic formulas that initially captivated audiences. Not so for Hosseini, a popular-fiction writer of the highest caliber whose talent is as agile and wide-ranging as his new novel itself.
Donna Rifkind's reviews appear frequently in The Washington Post Book World and the Los Angeles Times. She has also been a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The American Scholar, and other publications. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
Reviewer: Donna Rifkind
Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
Editorial Reviews
From Barnes & Noble
After his triumphant novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini gifts us with a poignant story of love, loss, and recovery across several families and over several generations. Like an intricately woven tapestry, And the Mountains Echoed pulls us into the lives of disparate children, men, and women in Afghanistan, France, Greece, and California, showing us how the choices they and other make resonate over decades. A masterpiece; superlative early reviews.
The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
…his most assured and emotionally gripping story yet, more fluent and ambitious than The Kite Runner, more narratively complex than A Thousand Splendid Suns…Mr. Hosseini's narrative gifts have deepened over the years, enabling him to anchor firmly the more maudlin aspects of his tale in genuine emotion and fine-grained details. And so we finish this novel with an intimate understanding of who his characters are and how they've defined themselves over the years through the choices they have made between duty and freedom, familial responsibilities and independence, loyalty to home and exile abroad.
The Washington Post - Marcela Valdes
Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith when a popular novelist shows a decided preference for moral complexity. It suggests that readers crave more than simplistic escape. Or perhaps it just means that some writers, like Khaled Hosseini, know how to whisk rough moral fiber into something exquisite…Over and over again, he takes complicated characters and roasts them slowly, forcing us to revise our judgments about them and to recognize the good in the bad and vice versa.
Publishers Weekly
Hosseini’s third novel (after A Thousand Splendid Suns) follows a close-knit but oft-separated Afghan family through love, wars, and losses more painful than death. The story opens in 1952 in the village of Shadbagh, outside of Kabul, as a laborer, Kaboor, relates a haunting parable of triumph and loss to his son, Abdullah. The novel’s core, however, is the sale for adoption of the Kaboor’s three-year-old daughter, Pari, to the wealthy poet Nila Wahdati and her husband, Suleiman, by Pari’s step-uncle Nabi. The split is particularly difficult for Abdullah, who took care of his sister after their mother’s death. Once Suleiman has a stroke, Nila leaves him to Nabi’s care and takes Pari to live in Paris. Much later, during the U.S. occupation, the dying Nabi makes Markos, a Greek plastic surgeon now renting the Wahdati house, promise to find Pari and give her a letter containing the truth. The beautiful writing, full of universal truths of loss and identity, makes each section a jewel, even if the bigger picture, which eventually expands to include Pari’s life in France, sometimes feels disjointed. Still, Hosseini’s eye for detail and emotional geography makes this a haunting read. Agent: Robert Barnett, Williams & Connolly. (May)
Daily Beast
Wrought with mastery, And the Mountains Echoed is not just a well spun tale, but an accomplishment of the most elusive of literary challenges—the humanization of a war ravaged population in the eyes of the very people complicit in their ruin.
San Francisco Chronicle
There is an assured, charismatic new maturity to Hosseini's voice. When he hits his stride, the results are electrifying.
Boston Globe
Hosseini delves into the joys, sorrows, and betrayals that alternately bind and fracture families. Once again, Hosseini's lovingly rendered Afghanistan takes center stage, but in this book he extends his examination to encompass how the Afghan identity affects his characters' decisions and lives in unfamiliar environments.
Los Angles Times
[Hosseini's] beautifully written, masterfully crafted new book, And the Mountains Echoed, spans nearly 60 years of Afghan history as it investigates the consequences of a desperate act that scars two young lives and resonates through many others. . . . And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love.
The Miami Herald
Compulsively readable, in large part because [Hosseini] probes his characters' psyches in a nuanced and poetic manner . . . And the Mountains Echoed attains a greater level of complexity than its two predecessors . . . and signals the ongoing maturation of a gifted storyteller.
Austin Chronicle
Readers' tears may fall by first chapter's end. Introspective and perfectly paced, Hosseini's microcosmic plot spares no expense with sensory details...Hosseini skillfully weaves the tapestry with universal elements: human fallibility, innate goodness, perseverance, forgiveness, sexuality, jealousy, companionship, and joy.... And the Mountains Echoed resonates to the core.
Kirkus Reviews
After two stellar novels set (mostly) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini's third tacks among Afghanistan, California, France and Greece to explore the effect of the Afghan diaspora on identity. It begins powerfully in 1952. Saboor is a dirt-poor day laborer in a village two days walk from Kabul. His first wife died giving birth to their daughter Pari, who's now 4 and has been raised lovingly by her brother, 10-year-old Abdullah; two peas in a pod, but "leftovers" in the eyes of Parwana, Saboor's second wife. Saboor's brother-in-law Nabi is a cook/chauffeur for a wealthy, childless couple in Kabul; he helps arrange the sale of Pari to the couple, breaking Abdullah's heart. The drama does nothing to prepare us for the coming leaps in time and place. Nabi's own story comes next in a posthumous tell-all letter (creaky device) to Markos, the Greek plastic surgeon who occupies the Kabul house from 2002 onwards. Nabi confesses his guilt in facilitating the sale of Pari and describes the adoptive couple: his boss Suleiman, a gay man secretly in love with him, and his wife, Nila, a half-French poet who high-tails it to France with Pari after Suleiman has a stroke. There follow the stories of mother and daughter in Paris, Markos' childhood in Greece (an irrelevance), the return to Kabul of expat cousins from California and the Afghan warlord who stole the old village. Missing is the viselike tension of the earlier novels. It's true that betrayal is a constant theme, as it was in The Kite Runner, but it doesn't work as a glue. And identity? Hosseini struggles to convince us that Pari becomes a well-integrated Frenchwoman. The stories spill from Hosseini's bountiful imagination, but they compete against each other, denying the novel a catalyst; the result is a bloated, unwieldy work.
Library Journal
This bittersweet family saga spans six decades and transports readers from Afghanistan to France, Greece, and the United States. Hosseini (The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns) weaves a gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. Siblings Pari and Abdullah are cruelly separated at childhood. A disfigured young woman, Thalia is abandoned by her mother and learns to love herself under the tutelage of a surrogate. Markos, a doctor who travels the world healing strangers, avoids his sick mother back home. A feminist poet, Nila Wahdatire, reinvents herself through an artful magazine interview, and Nabi, who is burdened by a past deed, leaves a letter of explanation. Each character tells his or her version of the same story of selfishness and selflessness, acceptance and forgiveness, but most important, of love in all its complex iterations. VERDICT In this uplifting and deeply satisfying book, Hosseini displays an optimism not so obvious in his previous works. Readers will be clamoring for it. [See Prepub Alert, 11/04/12.]—Sally Bissell, Lee Cty. Lib. Syst., Estero, FL
The Barnes & Noble Review
Each of Khaled Hosseini's three novels — The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and now And the Mountains Echoed — begins with a betrayal and then gradually finds its way toward an unexpected redemption. Each includes within its cast of characters at least one orphaned or abandoned child. In all three books, the author exhibits an unabashed didacticism, using plainspoken family dramas to convey the complex recent history and culture of Afghanistan to multitudes of readers in America and around the world. (To date, more than 10 million copies of Hosseini's books have been sold in the U.S. alone.) Yet in each of the books the author's allegiance is above all to the story, from which he has stripped away most stylistic enhancements, reducing his tale to its emotional essence. To Hosseini's detractors, his narrative purity comes off as trite earnestness. To his legions of fans it's a virtue, a hallmark of credibility and consistency.
For all these similarities among Hosseini's novels, it's their differences that are more interesting and instructive. By paying attention to those differences, which are chiefly structural, one can follow the evolution of Hosseini's refinement as a storyteller. The Kite Runner traced a more or less straightforward line from the narrator's childhood in 1960s–'70s Kabul to his adult life in Northern California around the turn of the millennium. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, instead of telling a single story from a single point of view, Hosseini abruptly switched characters partway through the novel and started again, ultimately weaving both halves of the narrative together. It was a risk, but it worked: the fracturing of the story mirrored the fracturing of Afghanistan's social structure during three decades of violent instability, from the Soviet invasion beginning in December 1979 through a prolonged civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and American military involvement after September 11, 2001.
Hosseini's third book is even more structurally sophisticated. "You want a story and I will tell you one," it begins, but in fact And the Mountains Echoed contains many stories, starting over not just once but many times, as it ranges capriciously through varying points of view and time periods and far-flung locations.
Once again Hosseini begins, classically, with a simple family tale. In 1952, in a remote Afghan village called Shadbagh, a penniless day laborer is compelled to sell his three-year-old daughter to a wealthy childless couple in Kabul in order to sustain his wife and remaining children. The little daughter, named Pari, has a deep mutual bond with her ten-year-old brother, Abdullah, who until now has been her main caregiver. The grief and guilt that this forced separation inflicts on all the family members will flare up periodically throughout their lives. It will spread over continents, too, since Pari will eventually spend most of her life in France, and Abdullah will emigrate to America as an adult, in 1982.
Hosseini's intention is to show how stubbornly a homeland manages to cling to a person, in strange and diluted ways, even after years of dispersion and assimilation. Thus we note that Pari, who has lived in Paris since her adoptive mother moved her there from Kabul when she was six, has twinges of recovered memory of Shadbagh and her unmentioned birth family, "like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled." And we see Abdullah, transplanted to the San Francisco Bay Area, educating his American daughter with lessons in Farsi and the Koran and slaving away in his restaurant, Abe's Kabob House, with its tourist-friendly menu of "Caravan Kabob, Khyber Pass Pilaf, Silk Route Chicken," and - - notes his sharp-eyed daughter — "the badly framed poster of the Afghan girl from National Geographic, the one with the eyes — like they had passed an ordinance that every single Afghan restaurant had to have her eyes staring back from the wall."
It's not only these central characters who feel the presence of their origins as if they were gingerly touching an old wound. There is Idris Bashiri, Abdullah's Bay Area doctor, who wrestles with his guilt as a privileged Westernized Afghan when he travels to his hometown of Kabul and sees the suffering of a population ravaged by ongoing privation and war. There is Markos Varvaris, a plastic surgeon and relief worker in Kabul who grew up on the Greek island of Tinos, attempting to bury the pain of his difficult childhood by aiding the disadvantaged in hotspots around the world. And there is Gholam, a thirteen-year-old Afghan boy made cynical by years of displacement in a refugee camp in Pakistan, who returns to his village with his family to find that their land has been stolen by a drug warlord.
These are all separate stories, yet Hosseini takes care to connect each of them, in roundabout ways, to the central narrative of Pari and Abdullah's ruptured family. By tracing the paths of many characters from their birthplaces to various diasporas, he has expanded his familiar themes of betrayal and redemption into a narrative edifice that is much grander than the plainer architecture of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. And he has accomplished this without losing the homespun emotional forcefulness that distinguished those earlier novels. An author with a less urgent calling might be willing merely to manage the brand of his or her success, recycling the same magic formulas that initially captivated audiences. Not so for Hosseini, a popular-fiction writer of the highest caliber whose talent is as agile and wide-ranging as his new novel itself.
Donna Rifkind's reviews appear frequently in The Washington Post Book World and the Los Angeles Times. She has also been a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The American Scholar, and other publications. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
Reviewer: Donna Rifkind
小蘑菇 Douban
author:
一十四洲
publishing house:
读创 | 北京联合出版公司
2020
- 7
2020年,地球磁极消失,人类因宇宙辐射大量死亡,百年间生物开始变异并且互相吞噬,而人类只剩人造基地中几万人口苦苦挣扎。
异种深渊里生长着一只拥有自我意识的小蘑菇,它因人类安泽死后的血肉滋养,变成了人类并取名安折。安折决心去人类基地寻找自己被人类采走的孢子。
陆沨是人类基地的审判者上校,他肩负着异种查杀责任,一旦发现异种会立即枪决。而安折的变异却瞒过了陆沨的眼睛,人类和异种的故事就此展开……
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不要温和地走入那个良夜,不要温顺地接受灭亡……
异种深渊里生长着一只拥有自我意识的小蘑菇,它因人类安泽死后的血肉滋养,变成了人类并取名安折。安折决心去人类基地寻找自己被人类采走的孢子。
陆沨是人类基地的审判者上校,他肩负着异种查杀责任,一旦发现异种会立即枪决。而安折的变异却瞒过了陆沨的眼睛,人类和异种的故事就此展开……
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不要温和地走入那个良夜,不要温顺地接受灭亡……
虐殺器官 Douban
虐殺器官
author:
伊藤計劃
translator:
麥盧寶全
publishing house:
台灣東販
2015
- 7
2015年10月劇場版即將上映
‧SF迷引頸期盼,英年早逝的天才科幻小說作家出道作
‧被譽為世界最頂尖的科幻作品,出版後掀起日本科幻文學界滔天巨浪
‧宮部美幸‧伊阪幸太郎給予極高評價的作家
‧日本罕見的本格國際軍事謀略懸疑小說
‧「2000年代SF BEST」第1名
‧「BEST SF 2007」第1名
‧第1屆PLAYBOY推理大獎
‧「SF Magazine創刊700號紀念2014ALL TIME BEST SF」長篇部門第5名
‧第二十八屆日本SF大獎候補
911以後,面臨「對抗恐怖主義」的轉機。各個先進國家皆導入徹底的管理體制,肅清恐怖分子,落後國家則開始大量爆發內戰及大規模屠殺。而在各地莫名發生的屠殺事件背後,有個謎樣的幕後黑手──約翰‧保羅,美國上尉克拉維斯‧薛帕德為了尋找他的蹤跡,因此趕赴悲慘的屠殺現場……。那個男人的目的為何?引發大量屠殺的「虐殺器官」的真面目又是什麼?
‧SF迷引頸期盼,英年早逝的天才科幻小說作家出道作
‧被譽為世界最頂尖的科幻作品,出版後掀起日本科幻文學界滔天巨浪
‧宮部美幸‧伊阪幸太郎給予極高評價的作家
‧日本罕見的本格國際軍事謀略懸疑小說
‧「2000年代SF BEST」第1名
‧「BEST SF 2007」第1名
‧第1屆PLAYBOY推理大獎
‧「SF Magazine創刊700號紀念2014ALL TIME BEST SF」長篇部門第5名
‧第二十八屆日本SF大獎候補
911以後,面臨「對抗恐怖主義」的轉機。各個先進國家皆導入徹底的管理體制,肅清恐怖分子,落後國家則開始大量爆發內戰及大規模屠殺。而在各地莫名發生的屠殺事件背後,有個謎樣的幕後黑手──約翰‧保羅,美國上尉克拉維斯‧薛帕德為了尋找他的蹤跡,因此趕赴悲慘的屠殺現場……。那個男人的目的為何?引發大量屠殺的「虐殺器官」的真面目又是什麼?
战略级天使 Douban
author:
白伯欢
publishing house:
新星出版社
2018
- 7
在金蔷薇国成立之前的数十年,身具特异能力的进化者开始登上历史舞台,其中的佼佼者被冠以战略级的称号,举手投足间决定国家民族的兴衰荣辱。
于是,世界各国开始搜罗和培养这种稀缺的人才资源。由此,战略级正式成为大国重器的象征。
在大浪淘沙般的遴选中,少年曹敬被当作次品惨遭抛弃。他以为自己会在沧江市这个平淡无奇的小城碌碌一生,然而接连发生的几起谋杀大案裹挟着他陷入了一个致命的迷局之中。
失控的少年进化者、被遗忘的种族使命、疑团重重的进化者历史、社会变革当中各阶层的暗流……错综复杂的势力不断倾轧角力,命运之手又会将曹敬推向何处?
于是,世界各国开始搜罗和培养这种稀缺的人才资源。由此,战略级正式成为大国重器的象征。
在大浪淘沙般的遴选中,少年曹敬被当作次品惨遭抛弃。他以为自己会在沧江市这个平淡无奇的小城碌碌一生,然而接连发生的几起谋杀大案裹挟着他陷入了一个致命的迷局之中。
失控的少年进化者、被遗忘的种族使命、疑团重重的进化者历史、社会变革当中各阶层的暗流……错综复杂的势力不断倾轧角力,命运之手又会将曹敬推向何处?
凶画 Douban
author:
周浩晖
publishing house:
海南出版社
2015
- 10
凶画由法号“空忘”的僧人所作,在枯木寺封存多年。没有人知道其中画了什么,也没有人敢一窥究竟。而打开观画的人,终将难逃厄运。
三个画家上山写生,夜宿枯木寺,不听劝诫,好奇难耐地打开了这幅凶画,惨剧接连发生:三人中,一人坠崖,一人心脏病发,一人得了怪病七窍流血而亡;正在闭门修禅的画作者“空忘”上吊自杀,小和尚也惨遭毒手。而关于“无头鬼”“死亡谷”的恐怖传言又让因大雪封路而孤立无援的古寺中人恐慌至极……
隐藏在凶画中的真相究竟是什么?在画卷被打开的那一刻,也释放出了一段尘封二十多年的爱恨纠葛和凶杀悬案。烈火重新燃烧,在它面前,除了颤抖,你还能做什么?
三个画家上山写生,夜宿枯木寺,不听劝诫,好奇难耐地打开了这幅凶画,惨剧接连发生:三人中,一人坠崖,一人心脏病发,一人得了怪病七窍流血而亡;正在闭门修禅的画作者“空忘”上吊自杀,小和尚也惨遭毒手。而关于“无头鬼”“死亡谷”的恐怖传言又让因大雪封路而孤立无援的古寺中人恐慌至极……
隐藏在凶画中的真相究竟是什么?在画卷被打开的那一刻,也释放出了一段尘封二十多年的爱恨纠葛和凶杀悬案。烈火重新燃烧,在它面前,除了颤抖,你还能做什么?
六异录 Douban
author:
朱大可
publishing house:
中信出版集团
2020
- 10
《六异录》由六个独立又相互映照的故事组成。在欲望消费盛行的当下,作者朱大可重返东方传统文化源头,以感官“六识”——眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意为框架,书写了由感官驱动迸发而来的各类欲望故事:行囊里,一张破旧不堪的狼皮, 隐藏着幻术师一生最隐蔽的秘密;葬礼上,泣颂师是否一哭,既决定了她自己的生死命运,也关系着整个王国的政局;月光下,骄傲的字造师夜夜流泪诅咒,她听不见字魂的悲鸣……欲望生长又破灭,带来强烈的感观冲击和快感也带来无休无止的苦痛与不安。朱大可以矫激奇诡的想象力,戏剧性地将跌宕起伏的故事情节和六种中国民间神秘行业——幻术、哭丧术、香术、验毒术、相骨术和字造术结合起来,打造了一部妖艳绚烂的文字寓言。
一切现身于传奇故事里的古老欲望,都是当代欲望。我们关注欲望,也是关注被忽视的我们自身。
————
大可老师身上肯定是藏着一个活活的小说鬼。
——李敬泽 (评论家)
每一次我都惊叹的说朱大可怎么能够把文字搞到这个地步?他像是在虐待文字,文字本身被他虐待做出一种反抗,然后显示出无比妖娆,无比魅惑的东西,他能够赋予文字以新的东西。
——陈晓明(学者)
朱大可主要是在制造问题,他是一个“麻烦制造者”。大可提出了很多问题,他像一位号手,但吹响的是究竟什么,我们要等到以后才能听清楚。在中国近现代思想文化史上,凡是要出现大变动,往往就是神话研究变热的时刻。
——钱文忠 (学者)
《六异录》里的声色犬马,也只不过是六场梦幻,来也匆匆,去也匆匆。在这六场梦幻中,六种感官欲望的极致,恰如六个华丽的寓言,作者并不指向道德评判,也不做劝世故事之姿,亦无艳羡之心。呈现其内在肌理,才是书写的垓心。
——盛文强(作家)
一切现身于传奇故事里的古老欲望,都是当代欲望。我们关注欲望,也是关注被忽视的我们自身。
————
大可老师身上肯定是藏着一个活活的小说鬼。
——李敬泽 (评论家)
每一次我都惊叹的说朱大可怎么能够把文字搞到这个地步?他像是在虐待文字,文字本身被他虐待做出一种反抗,然后显示出无比妖娆,无比魅惑的东西,他能够赋予文字以新的东西。
——陈晓明(学者)
朱大可主要是在制造问题,他是一个“麻烦制造者”。大可提出了很多问题,他像一位号手,但吹响的是究竟什么,我们要等到以后才能听清楚。在中国近现代思想文化史上,凡是要出现大变动,往往就是神话研究变热的时刻。
——钱文忠 (学者)
《六异录》里的声色犬马,也只不过是六场梦幻,来也匆匆,去也匆匆。在这六场梦幻中,六种感官欲望的极致,恰如六个华丽的寓言,作者并不指向道德评判,也不做劝世故事之姿,亦无艳羡之心。呈现其内在肌理,才是书写的垓心。
——盛文强(作家)
消失的13级台阶 Douban Goodreads
13階段
author:
[日] 高野和明
translator:
赵建勋
publishing house:
上海文艺出版社
2020
- 5
【内容简介】
一对老夫妇惨遭杀害。一切证据都指向树原亮,他却因车祸,恰好丧失了案发前后数小时的记忆……
死刑执行官南乡携手刚假释出狱的纯一调查,希望替这位丧失记忆的死刑犯洗清冤屈。但他们查到的唯一线索,就是树原亮记得自己曾“走在台阶上”。
距离树原亮被执行死刑的时间所剩无几,但这起案 件始终疑云重重,仅有的线索“台阶”仿佛也凭空消失了……
【编辑推荐】
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🔸荣获周刊文春“推理小说BEST10”第2名。
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🔸作者高野和明曾获日本推理作家协会奖,作品入围各大榜单。
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🔸曾改拍成电影,反町隆史、山崎努领衔主演!
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🔸是否值得为一场痛快的复仇,陪葬掉自己的人生?
【名家评论】
这是一次很有勇气的尝试,文中处处能感受到作者的热忱。我一口气读完了这本书,非常推荐!——宫部美雪
直到故事最后才呈现出错综复杂的真相,故事的情节设想得天衣无缝!——北村薰
虽然内容有些沉重,但是这本书具备让人一鼓作气读完的磅礴气势。——北方谦三
所有优秀推理小说应具备的条件,这本书里都发挥得恰到好处,无可挑剔。——逢坂刚
一对老夫妇惨遭杀害。一切证据都指向树原亮,他却因车祸,恰好丧失了案发前后数小时的记忆……
死刑执行官南乡携手刚假释出狱的纯一调查,希望替这位丧失记忆的死刑犯洗清冤屈。但他们查到的唯一线索,就是树原亮记得自己曾“走在台阶上”。
距离树原亮被执行死刑的时间所剩无几,但这起案 件始终疑云重重,仅有的线索“台阶”仿佛也凭空消失了……
【编辑推荐】
🔹荣获日本推理小说至高荣誉江户川乱步奖!
🔸荣获周刊文春“推理小说BEST10”第2名。
🔹入围“这本推理小说了不起”榜单。
🔸作者高野和明曾获日本推理作家协会奖,作品入围各大榜单。
🔹日本推理小说家宫部美雪好评盛赞,曾为本书写解说。
🔸曾改拍成电影,反町隆史、山崎努领衔主演!
🔹扑朔迷离的案件背后 ,是一次对死刑制度鞭辟入里的探讨。
🔸是否值得为一场痛快的复仇,陪葬掉自己的人生?
【名家评论】
这是一次很有勇气的尝试,文中处处能感受到作者的热忱。我一口气读完了这本书,非常推荐!——宫部美雪
直到故事最后才呈现出错综复杂的真相,故事的情节设想得天衣无缝!——北村薰
虽然内容有些沉重,但是这本书具备让人一鼓作气读完的磅礴气势。——北方谦三
所有优秀推理小说应具备的条件,这本书里都发挥得恰到好处,无可挑剔。——逢坂刚