The Khao San Road, Bangkok--first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."
The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.
Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck--the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man--and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents.
Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach is a look at a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.
發表於2025-03-28
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寫於2008-9-21 看瞭路卡姐姐的評價,便有心去找書來看,因為她的口味我一直是蠻認同的。 她這樣寫道: 『看完瞭The Beach,近年看過的最好的英文小說,幾個星期前去安特衛普時,正深埋於post-holiday depression中,暗不見天日的時候,想念遠方的海灘,在期盼中遙...
評分寫於2008-9-21 看瞭路卡姐姐的評價,便有心去找書來看,因為她的口味我一直是蠻認同的。 她這樣寫道: 『看完瞭The Beach,近年看過的最好的英文小說,幾個星期前去安特衛普時,正深埋於post-holiday depression中,暗不見天日的時候,想念遠方的海灘,在期盼中遙...
評分寫於2008-9-21 看瞭路卡姐姐的評價,便有心去找書來看,因為她的口味我一直是蠻認同的。 她這樣寫道: 『看完瞭The Beach,近年看過的最好的英文小說,幾個星期前去安特衛普時,正深埋於post-holiday depression中,暗不見天日的時候,想念遠方的海灘,在期盼中遙...
評分寫於2008-9-21 看瞭路卡姐姐的評價,便有心去找書來看,因為她的口味我一直是蠻認同的。 她這樣寫道: 『看完瞭The Beach,近年看過的最好的英文小說,幾個星期前去安特衛普時,正深埋於post-holiday depression中,暗不見天日的時候,想念遠方的海灘,在期盼中遙...
評分寫於2008-9-21 看瞭路卡姐姐的評價,便有心去找書來看,因為她的口味我一直是蠻認同的。 她這樣寫道: 『看完瞭The Beach,近年看過的最好的英文小說,幾個星期前去安特衛普時,正深埋於post-holiday depression中,暗不見天日的時候,想念遠方的海灘,在期盼中遙...
圖書標籤: Thailand 歡樂 反烏托邦 90年代
Everyone's plan was to read The Beach on the Beach( Maya Bay), or at least on any beach in Thailand.
評分Alex Garland
評分書是很好看的。但是蒼天啊大地啊為什麼!!!要不是今天Talas說我可能這輩子都不會知道Alex Garland還是驚變28天,機械姬跟Annihilation的導演,啊為什麼!!!這也太過於多纔多藝瞭吧!
評分書是很好看的。但是蒼天啊大地啊為什麼!!!要不是今天Talas說我可能這輩子都不會知道Alex Garland還是驚變28天,機械姬跟Annihilation的導演,啊為什麼!!!這也太過於多纔多藝瞭吧!
評分Alex Garland
The Beach 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載