薩拉·沃特斯
Sarah Waters
英國現代備受矚目的作傢,1966年齣生於英國威爾士,現居南倫敦,曾被Granta雜誌選為“20位當代最好的英語作傢”之一(2003),並獲得數項文學奬項,如英國《星期日泰晤士報》的“年度青年作傢奬”(2000)、“年度英語作傢奬”(2003)、“CWA曆史犯罪小說匕首奬”(2002)、入圍“柑橘奬”(2002,2006)、“布剋奬”(2002,2006,2009)等等,被認為是現今最好的小說傢之一。
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.
The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.
發表於2024-05-18
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評分SPOILER ALERT! What do you know about your mother. ---The knowledge of knowing and Motherhood in Fingersmith Fingersmith begins with a confusing confession of identity- ‘My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder’, followed by the still confusing discuss...
評分當我打開《指匠》(Fingersmith,颱灣譯名《荊棘之城》)時,心裏不由懷疑:莎拉•沃特斯(Sarah Waters)創造的會不會是一個古怪沉悶、嬌弱華貴的維多利亞中期世界?倫敦的窮街僻巷、城堡的威嚴荒涼、奇情的戀愛故事,會不會隻有偏嗜者纔能偶然注目?我是這樣開始讀《指匠》...
評分園藝學中有個名詞叫“造景”,指的是通過人工手段,利用環境條件和構成園林的各種要素創作齣所需要的景觀。我認為這就是薩拉·沃特斯小說的特質。她用真實素材設置齣虛構的景觀,細節是取得下來的。沃特斯將六部小說的場景都放在不遠的曆史中(維多利亞時期、一戰、二戰),曆...
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雖然結局有點匆忙 但真是好書一部!!
評分More than Dickens in lesbian form. 我讀到勃朗特姐妹,甚至陀思妥耶夫斯基的風格。第一部分尾聲開始驚喜;第二部分是非常細膩、深刻的人物側寫;而第三部分,尤其是純以聲音和想象編織的絞刑一段,文學性之強令我徹底拜服在作者腳下。傑作!
評分完全就是奔這那幾個鏡頭去買的
評分書名總是暗示意味這麼強
評分“it is love—not scorn, not malice; only love—that makes me harm her, in the end. // I have bitten down rage, insanity, desire, love, for the sake of freedom.“
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