Saving Fish from Drowning

出版者:Putnam Adult

作者:[美] 谭恩美

页数:474

出版时间:18 October, 2005

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780399153013

图书标签:美国外国文学AmyTan原版小说寓言人性柬埔寨悬疑

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A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter .

On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.

Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a fagade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions-both good and bad-and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes."

读后感

原版没看过，蔡骏这个译写版的真是乏善可陈，现在看到76页，我已经用勒接近一周时间，可见这书是多么让人昏昏欲睡，我这版是06年11月的，当时买完匆匆读勒一遍，时隔九年，无聊翻书看见这本，突然想不起来书中故事，就想仔细再读一遍，现在读到76页，期间数次感觉乏味的不行，...  

之前关于谭恩美的表扬太多，以至于对本小说期望被吊得如此之高。 好久没有看小说了，阅读小说的感觉有点模糊了。 小说没有吸引我最大的兴致，断断续续地读了些天才读完，几甚放弃。 因为是译写本，实在是想象不出作者原著的风采了。 或者原著也如此的平淡；或者被译写得乱七八...  

如果你有个温暖的长长的下午，建议你座在靠阳光的位置，别带音乐，静静的看这本书。这是趟漫长的旅行，或者你并不觉得它有多让你激动，它并不是以悬疑取胜的小说，但是你若安静的一气呵成看完，我想你再合上书的那一瞬间会有微微的感叹。 　　 　　之前并不知道这个美籍华人...  

贝塔斯曼已经停止了所有的中国业务，现在出来挑剔这本书应该没什么时效性，只是如鲠在喉,不吐不快. 所谓"译写",是贝塔斯曼发明出来的做法.出版社也罢，译者也罢，谁有权力主动改变-或者说曲解原著的内容,这违背一切做书和翻译作品的准则. 关于这本书的做法,早先曾经有过讨论. ...  

出乎意料，一帮ＳＢ翻的书。２１世纪还搞林琴南式翻译，本身就够操蛋的了，直接说粗制滥造得了，饶是如此还不见外，改原著，删减情节，改变章节顺序，真想问问：你们算干嘛的？译者是个悬疑小说作家，没文化，年轻气盛，没分寸感，我不怪丫，但是北京出版社的编辑怎么回...  

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米有看完……不过她的文字确实不错。

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This is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end.

米有看完……不过她的文字确实不错。