美國華裔女作傢,自1989年發錶成名作《喜福會》以來,早已超越瞭一位少數民族或者流行小說傢的身份,成為美國乃至於西方的最為著名的一流作傢之一。
In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say.
Ruth starts suspecting that something is terribly wrong with her mother. As a child, Ruth had been constantly subjected to her mother's disturbing notions about curses and ghosts, and to her repeated threats to kill herself, and was even forced by her mother to try to communicate with ghosts. But now LuLing seems less argumentative, even happy, far from her usual disagreeable and dissatisfied self.
While tending to her ailing mother, Ruth discovers the pages LuLing wrote in Chinese, the story of her tumultuous and star-crossed life, and is transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart. There she learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined, some of which may prove to be the teeth of Peking Man; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's scattered bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal.
Like layers of sediment being removed, each page reveals secrets of a larger mystery: What became of Peking Man? What was the name of the Bonesetter's Daughter? And who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Within LuLing's calligraphed pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, what she cannot tell her daughter yet hopes she will never forget.
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.
發表於2024-11-27
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讀這本書最大的感覺是書中的人物之間相互不理解的太多太多瞭。露絲和母親之間的隔閡自不必說,她和同居十年的男友之間存在的誤解還挺讓人唏噓的,慶幸最後還是在一起瞭。 露絲自小在美國長大(真的很想知道茹靈到美國知道的一些事和露絲小時候的事情)。對於她的童年描述不多...
評分 評分有些時候,我們為什麼會去傷害那些其實是我們深深愛著的人呢?因為愛之深,望之切。但其實,每個孩子都是想逃離傢人特彆是母親護冀下的叛逆子,不論父母有多麼多的經驗和教育,那些都是他們的,而不是孩子自己的經驗。孩子與父母間的角力有時候容易化解,有時候卻會犯下緻使的...
評分看這部書總聯想到張小姐寫的《金鎖記》同一個時代多少會帶有那個時代的烙印。這個主人公和曹七巧有一樣的作勁,但是總的來說還算是個可愛多。中國人大都對孩子的是“食指”教育--罵你是愛的錶現;老外提倡“拇指”教育--鼓勵贊揚。壞的好的,總是自覺或不自覺地把事情等先進行...
圖書標籤: Tan Asia-American Amy 美國 小說 FICTION 3/16/2014
Amy Tan always has a powerful pen. I enjoyed the keen observation with which she penetrated through space and time, countries and generations. But not very fond of the odd destinies of characters.
評分This is a great book! Very touching...The mother-daughter relationship has always be tense but as the daughter finds out her mother's past, she starts to understand why her mother behaves the way she does. Her way of love is different but it is always there!
評分Amy Tan always has a powerful pen. I enjoyed the keen observation with which she penetrated through space and time, countries and generations. But not very fond of the odd destinies of characters.
評分Amy Tan always has a powerful pen. I enjoyed the keen observation with which she penetrated through space and time, countries and generations. But not very fond of the odd destinies of characters.
評分Amy Tan always has a powerful pen. I enjoyed the keen observation with which she penetrated through space and time, countries and generations. But not very fond of the odd destinies of characters.
The Bonesetter's Daughter 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載