When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Ishiguro, Kazuo

页数:335

出版时间:2001-10-30

价格:$14.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375724404

图书标签:石黑一雄Kazuo_Ishiguro英国文学英国小说英语英文原版小說

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.

Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.

Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

读后感

这是一本让人不知道说什么好的小说，尤其是作为一个中国上海的读者来看它。 就可读性来说，这本故事真的没什么意思。一个非常故弄玄虚的案件，一场浩大却又明显想象失实的时代风波，几个描写很虚浮不太给人魅力感的人物。就是这样。 串联起整个故事的是主人公父母的离奇失踪...  

到上海之后开始出现超现实的情节，是作者有意为之，这并不是一部传统意义上的“侦探小说”，而是假借这一范式又将其拆解；背景环境的模糊以及尽量避免区域文化特征则是作者走向世界文学这一场域的一种写作策略。石黑一雄所写并非惊心动魄的故事，更非宏伟的史诗，而是人内心世...  

在民国梦一度盛行又开始被解构的当下，读这本书还有点意思。 1.最重要的是Christopher这个角色的理想主义和软弱、中立和冷漠。 作为一个理想主义者，当他面对庸碌的逐利之徒时，明明是后者更叫人恶心，前者反而总是显得无理取闹和幼稚。这一点在他回到上海之后尤其明显，穿越...  

《我辈孤雏》是我看的第四本石黑一雄小说。看到80%，我已经抑制不住吐槽的冲动了，等看完连吐槽的兴趣都没有了。 故事如下：一个英国小孩生活在上海租界，与邻居日本小孩是朋友。一天，他爸跟情妇跑了，但他认为他爸是为了反抗帝国主义霸权被绑架了。又过了一阵，他妈妈被一个...  

这部作品，作者充分展示了他的隐喻技巧。以讲故事见长的石黑一雄，在这部作品中先是将一个具有完整轮廓的故事打碎成记忆的残片，再将隐喻赋予到人物，情节和对白上，使故事不再只是一个简单的故事，而是时时刻刻具有强烈的精神指向。故事的一根主线推动所有表面碎片的情节向前...  

用户评价

So many glitches -.-

白开水小说…… " It's obvious to the reader that Christopher deludes himself about many things, such as his conviction that when he "roots out evil," he is "cleansing the world of wickedness." This inclination toward grandiosity is a direct result of Christopher's sense of powerlessness as an orphan. "

结果相当喜欢这本书的最后几章 仔细想想觉得莱总BvS里的一句台词很适合用到这里 the magical thinking of orphan boys

Nostalgia encouraged by the loss of memory

Of course it turns out to have nothing to do with my research and the entire set-up has some intrinsic problems, but a good read nonetheless