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.
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.
發表於2025-02-09
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細說主要人物結局:偵探剋裏斯托弗得知父親的失蹤是和女人私奔,母親被軍閥王顧強娶羞辱生活慘烈,而自己在倫敦的一切全是因為母親的犧牲;母親一個反鴉片運動的積極分子被丈夫遺棄,為瞭反鴉片運動與軍閥王顧結識,後被王顧強娶,為瞭兒子財務上的供應犧牲自己順從王顧,戰後...
評分《我輩孤雛》,一本有著極佳名字的書。但是看完並不會讓人心曠神怡,甚至還會有一種揮之不去的憂國憂民的悲傷。 從倫敦到上海,我不知道1937年的上海到底什麼樣子,所以我不知道石黑一雄是否描述準確。但是讀起來,我總覺得有一種魔幻,一種無法置信的抗拒感,或者有好像哪裏不...
評分到上海之後開始齣現超現實的情節,是作者有意為之,這並不是一部傳統意義上的“偵探小說”,而是假藉這一範式又將其拆解;背景環境的模糊以及盡量避免區域文化特徵則是作者走嚮世界文學這一場域的一種寫作策略。石黑一雄所寫並非驚心動魄的故事,更非宏偉的史詩,而是人內心世...
評分圖書標籤: 石黑一雄 Kazuo_Ishiguro 英國文學 英國 小說 英語 英文原版 小說
寫瞭一大串沒保存..就這樣吧
評分前三分之二寫得很好,最後一部分莫名的編造感很重。但更大的問題是,一個外國人對二十世紀早期的中國和中國人的呈現,似乎讓人不太舒服。
評分But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents.
評分But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents.
評分前半部非常好,到瞭重返上海找父母,在戰爭前綫穿過那些平民窟的部分真是讓我又想到瞭前部作品《無可慰藉》,那種卡夫卡的詭異迷宮。好在結尾部分迴復正常,精彩的收尾並切題when we were orphans!
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