莎拉·格鲁恩(Sara Gruen),对动物有着莫名的狂热,先前出版过两本与马有关的书,都广受欢迎。书中很多的角色都是根据真实人物为蓝本,故事背景则是根据1930年代的巡回马戏团。她现与丈夫、三名子女、四只猫、两头羊、两条狗、一匹马同住在芝加哥北部的环保小区。
发表于2025-06-03
Water for Elephants 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
【读品】罗豫/文 生长在小地方的老辈中国人,大概都不会忘记上个世纪前半叶那些走南闯北的戏班子。几乎同一时期,在地球的另一侧,马戏则是美国民间重要的娱乐活动。“班”和“团”,我们很难想象这究竟只是字面差异,还是确实标识出某种规模上的不同。尤其看到许多动画片上的...
评分花了兩天晚上斷斷續續看完了。預想中的沒有感動,現在很少有標榜著灑淚的書可以真的讓人哭了。所以,看書還是不要看廣告詞的好,不然會被誤導。 這本書,不是走的感人路數,也應該不是走華美詞藻路綫。看到豆瓣上好多人在對它表現出失望,埋怨它的詞滙平白空洞,還有就幹脆直...
评分今天把《大象的眼泪》看完了。 有个朋友說這個是个烂书,其实也不怎么好看。情节也不复杂。过份简单了点。 一开始莫名其妙的倒叙,把关键的情节都写出来了。致使后面几乎没有什么悬念了。结果早知道了! 就算心最急的讀者也不用翻著后面看結果了,敗筆啊。 不過,多少也有...
评分故事构思还是很有意思,但是感觉没有像书封说的那么神,连欧普拉都推荐的书为什么没有让人觉得那么感动呢?我个人认为跟翻译有一定的关系。 看到了对译者的介绍,我觉得他还是一个对翻译,对文字充满热情的人。但是整本书的语言风格有点不固定,有时俗,有时雅,时而口语,时...
评分图书标签: 小说 大象的眼泪 外国文学 fiction 獸醫,愛情,人世間 英文 英文原版 Novel
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.
Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act—in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.
我本来不想标这个条目的但是看到电影条目里那么多所谓原著党我就不行了……这本书看到最后我恨不得撕了啊,尼玛不带这么杰克苏的啊,尼玛情节简单得令人发指啊,尼玛不说道德观如何这种奇怪的高大全和矮挫丑的对决是怎么回事啊,尼玛美国人能不能控制一下他们天马行空的意淫啊,智商是硬伤啊……
评分太一般了,我都不好意思承认我读完了
评分飞机延误时看完的。还是背景大过于实质吧。小品文
评分Sometime when you get older, things you think on and wish on starts to seem real.
评分我还记得小的时候看过的马戏团,这种本身游走在城市之间的稀奇古怪的团体带着稀奇古怪的东西,还真是让人心动,可是现在已经基本绝迹,有的时候还真的很怀念呢
Water for Elephants 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书