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2025-04-26
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《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...
評分這是一本讓人不知道說什麼好的小說,尤其是作為一個中國上海的讀者來看它。 就可讀性來說,這本故事真的沒什麼意思。一個非常故弄玄虛的案件,一場浩大卻又明顯想象失實的時代風波,幾個描寫很虛浮不太給人魅力感的人物。就是這樣。 串聯起整個故事的是主人公父母的離奇失蹤...
評分這部作品,作者充分展示瞭他的隱喻技巧。以講故事見長的石黑一雄,在這部作品中先是將一個具有完整輪廓的故事打碎成記憶的殘片,再將隱喻賦予到人物,情節和對白上,使故事不再隻是一個簡單的故事,而是時時刻刻具有強烈的精神指嚮。故事的一根主綫推動所有錶麵碎片的情節嚮前...
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
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Ishiguro's ambitious attempt at an epic often fails to convince, but his forte lies in capturing the unspeakable. In resolving a mystery, in negotiating through traumatic memories, Ishiguro lays bare the abysmal gap between reality and imagination in individuals whose lives have been torn to pieces in a clash of empires.
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。
評分如果是混亂的記憶導緻瞭故事的混亂,一切似乎都可原諒。但是內心還是無法接受。
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