The Casual Vacancy

出版者:Little, Brown and Company

作者:[英] J·K·罗琳

页数:512

出版时间:2012-9-27

价格:GBP 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781408704202

具体描述

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

作者简介

J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 73 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films. She has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry’s schoolbooks within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of the Children’s High Level Group, and quickly became the fastest selling book of the year

As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légion d’Honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University USA. She supports a wide number of charitable causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children

读后感

「别把它看作是罗琳写的，仍然是一本值得一看的小说」是我的评价。先说我是一个骨灰级的哈迷，不得不承认，读这本书给罗琳的感情分占了很大一部分，因为作者的名字闪耀着坚持读了下来，但是终章部分的荡气回肠，让人读完不禁生出无限的思考。 如果想在这本书中找到读「哈利波...  

在世界范围内，也找不到像J.K.罗琳这样卖小说的作家。“哈利·波特”系列大获成功，全球销量超过四亿五万册。而《偶发空缺》的发行方式和保密程度也跟《哈利波特》差不多。中国作为重要的市场之一，大陆中文版也拔得头筹争取到了亚洲第一个上市的译本。很难想象一本文学小说首...  

昨天中午，一个星期的阅读历程终于结束的时候，耳机里传来蕾哈娜的‘umbrella’，醇厚的女声有力的打着节拍，“When the sun shines, we’ll shine together.Told you I'll be here forever,Said I'll always be a friend,Took an oath I''ll stick it out till the end.”看着...  

我想起这个标题是因为Fats和Krystal第一次不戴套的时候，Fats跟自己说这就是real life. 我暗自揣度彼时Krystal该是多么没感觉、无所谓、和绝望啊。虽然曾一度尝试跟Fats说说自己的事情，Krystal大多数时候表现的像是一个非常正常的，socially normal的跟同龄人hook up的女...  

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破碎的情节在J.K Rowling的魔法棒下一个个慢慢地星光熠熠地串联起来，不得不佩服她的写作手法，又是一部能改编成电影的小说。这是一部真正意义的写给我这个年龄段（年近而立）及以上成人的小说。国内文字控制太严，推荐国内的朋友也要阅读原版，我不相信那些翻译能它翻译成允许出版的小说

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