Between Father and Son

V.S.奈保尔(1932年-)，英国移民作家。出生于西印度群岛特立尼达的一个印度家庭。奈保尔在西方享有盛誉，他和拉什迪、石黑一雄并称“英国移民文学三雄”。其作品曾获毛姆奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖、布克奖等不少重要文学奖，2001年荣获诺贝尔文学奖，这表明他“当代经典作家”地位的确立。重要作品有《米格尔街》、《河湾》、《抵达之谜》等。作品主要写印度、非洲、加勒比地区人的生存状况，表现了后殖民时代的世态人心。奈保尔是继康拉德之后又一位伟大的编年史作家。

出版者:Knopf

作者:V.S. Naipaul

页数:0

出版时间:2000-01-25

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780375407307

图书标签:immigrant

In 1950, after winning a scholarship from the government of Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul, aged seventeen, left home for the first time. Following a two-week journey by steamer, he arrived in Oxford, England, a world utterly removed from the one he had longed to escape and to which he would never really return. This extraordinary collection of letters gives us, as nothing published previously has, an intimate view of Naipaul's formative years.

It is a story of family members oceans apart, clinging to one another against the sadness of dislocation and isolation: The young Naipaul, desperate not for a degree but to become a writer and make his way in the world. His beloved sister Kamla, anxious and bewildered, away at school in India. And his melancholy but loving father, whose own broken dream of succeeding as a writer would be realized in the singular achievement of his son.

With the satisfactions of a novel, Between Father and Son portrays a deeply affecting family drama, even as it bears witness to the flowering of one of the great literary geniuses of the century.

读后感

看完《奈保尔家书》后真是既感动又羡慕。奈保尔一家不富有，但是幸运又团结。哈佛大学的塔尔博士在他的“幸福公开课”中说，幸福的人并不是不经历痛苦，而是能比较快速的从痛苦、挫折中恢复过来。看完这本书，我觉得幸福的家庭也是一样，他们也需要度过各种各样的难关，像财务...  

看完《奈保尔家书》后真是既感动又羡慕。奈保尔一家不富有，但是幸运又团结。哈佛大学的塔尔博士在他的“幸福公开课”中说，幸福的人并不是不经历痛苦，而是能比较快速的从痛苦、挫折中恢复过来。看完这本书，我觉得幸福的家庭也是一样，他们也需要度过各种各样的难关，像财务...  

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