When We Were Orphans

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

出版者:Faber and Faber

作者:Kazuo Ishiguro

页数:256

出版时间:2000

价格:CAD 16.10

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780571204403

图书标签:英文原版英国文学小说English?

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him ... more »to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by doing so will the world be saved from the approaching catastrophe.

Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of remembrance, deception and the longing for home; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life.

读后感

《我辈孤雏》，一本有着极佳名字的书。但是看完并不会让人心旷神怡，甚至还会有一种挥之不去的忧国忧民的悲伤。 从伦敦到上海，我不知道1937年的上海到底什么样子，所以我不知道石黑一雄是否描述准确。但是读起来，我总觉得有一种魔幻，一种无法置信的抗拒感，或者有好像哪里不...  

《我辈孤雏》，一本有着极佳名字的书。但是看完并不会让人心旷神怡，甚至还会有一种挥之不去的忧国忧民的悲伤。 从伦敦到上海，我不知道1937年的上海到底什么样子，所以我不知道石黑一雄是否描述准确。但是读起来，我总觉得有一种魔幻，一种无法置信的抗拒感，或者有好像哪里不...  

看完《上海孤儿》，毫无疑问这是个并不紧密的故事，暗线的发生一直以孩童时期的主人公叙述道来，碎片式的记忆间插在七个章节里，实际形成双重记忆。时隔久远的上海和战争正在爆发的上海，一切情节上的漏洞和虚弱被时空的远距离模糊掉，战争的背景使其从观感上烟雾弥漫，...  

《我辈孤雏》是我看的第四本石黑一雄小说。看到80%，我已经抑制不住吐槽的冲动了，等看完连吐槽的兴趣都没有了。 故事如下：一个英国小孩生活在上海租界，与邻居日本小孩是朋友。一天，他爸跟情妇跑了，但他认为他爸是为了反抗帝国主义霸权被绑架了。又过了一阵，他妈妈被一个...  

细说主要人物结局：侦探克里斯托弗得知父亲的失踪是和女人私奔，母亲被军阀王顾强娶羞辱生活惨烈，而自己在伦敦的一切全是因为母亲的牺牲；母亲一个反鸦片运动的积极分子被丈夫遗弃，为了反鸦片运动与军阀王顾结识，后被王顾强娶，为了儿子财务上的供应牺牲自己顺从王顾，战后...

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Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?

Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?

Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?

Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?

Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?