Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.
Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
發表於2025-01-27
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薩拉的小說陰鬱,迷人。薩拉其實是——最主流的一流作傢。同性隻是她錶達的一個很小的媒介。她的小說(文字)除瞭第一部《輕舔絲絨》:清淺的艷麗,其他都是沒有顔色,黑色的。 薩拉的小說是心理的。外部世界隻是她內心世界是的一部分。包圍她的是一個暗的容器。偶爾有那麼一...
評分 評分 評分 評分我抓起小說就讀,不知道作者薩拉·沃特斯(Sarah Waters)是英國最矚目的現代作傢,對《荊棘之城》(Fingersmith)中1861年英國倫敦陰暗潮濕,煙囪吐著黃煙,小商販在泥地叫賣,喧嘩嘈雜而又更深霧重的景色還以為齣自狄更斯這樣的古典作傢手筆呢。 故事情節十分有趣兒:倫敦蘭...
圖書標籤: SarahWaters 小說 英國 Les fingersmith 英國文學 同性 外國文學
神啊,這世界怎麼會如此腹黑和有愛。
評分還是原版好
評分太多的逆轉中精神病院門口的那一幕最最驚心動魄。莫德如此精緻而脆弱,對比起她在倫敦街頭的無措,Susan在精神病院裏的頑強生命力似乎讓人相信二十年前那個母親的決定可能是正確的。什麼都比不上人生初見的情動。
評分還是原版好
評分三星半。終於讀完瞭,比想象中難讀許多,在於文字的疏離感吧,代入感不強。敘事的對稱性很特彆,極為精緻。但情節本身 twist 得有些狗血啊。
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