Christina Baker Kline is the author of New York Times instant bestseller A Piece of the World (2017), about the relationship between the artist Andrew Wyeth and the subject of his best-known painting, Christina’s World. Kline has written six other novels -- Orphan Train, Orphan Train Girl, The Way Life Should Be, Sweet Water, Bird in Hand, and Desire Lines-- and written or edited five works of nonfiction. Her 2013 novel Orphan Train spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, including five weeks at # 1, and was published in 40 countries. More than 100 communities and colleges have chosen it as a “One Book, One Read” selection. Her adaptation of Orphan Train for young readers is Orphan Train Girl (2017). She lives near New York City and on the coast of Maine.
发表于2024-05-13
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生活中常常显示出某种复杂性:有些人和事情很简单,简单到了觉得实在不应该那样简单,但果真就那样简单;有些人和事情看上去是那样,但仔细了解之后,或者接触到更多的细节,才发现并不是那么回事,故事的背后还会有故事。生于英国、长在美国,备受欧美读者喜爱的小说家克里斯...
评分 评分文 / 龙川文不留 《孤儿列车》是一本有着真实历史背景的小说,作者克里斯蒂娜•贝克•克兰用朴实而精简的言词讲述了一个关于孤儿的故事,通过这个生动的故事,把美国最早记载的系统的孤儿认养项目,引入读者的视线。 美国早期的民主与自由是其它国家所匮缺的,...
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The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.
第一次完整读完一本英文书
评分两位忘年的女性,因为同样的孤儿身份而有了交集和共鸣,两条时间线索在相互穿插、交融。人性的真伪在字里行间迸发,值得一读。
评分两条线交织,作者从历史真实的事情编织出这样一个感动的故事。阅读起来也非常容易的现代英文小说。
评分虽然有些套路化(说重点有点俗),不过最后结局那里还是有被感动到。
评分一生一世纪。Some stories are like this, you would never understand it better than having been experienced a fragment of it. Sometimes we have to clean up and put away the past cuz it's too heavy to carry along, but there are definitely times to revisit to ensure ourselves who we truly are. When years pass by, the heavy could be lift upon as feather.
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