The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.

出版者:William Morrow

作者:Neil Gaiman

页数:192

出版时间:2013-6-18

价格:USD 25.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780062255655

图书标签:奇幻NeilGaiman尼尔·盖曼小说英国英文原版科幻/奇幻外国文学

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

读后感

车道尽头的海洋，直接看名字真不知道什么意思。某次买书看到尼尔盖曼的名字就带回来了，儿子说应该支持姚海军，姚是这套世界奇幻大师丛书的主编。如果我当时看到《坟场之书》《美国众神》可能还是会选更著名的那两本。 书只有220页，开本也不大，方便携带，所以...  

1，主角是男孩，第一配角是女孩 vs 主角是女孩，第一配角是公猫 2，主角的父母在情感上疏忽他 vs 主角的父母很忙，疏于照顾她 3，主角不受待见，没朋友 vs 主角刚搬家，没朋友 4，主角经常孤独地沉浸在书本里 vs 主角经常独自游荡 5，奇异的事情是走到车道尽头后发生的 vs ...  

有剧透有剧透有剧透有剧透有剧透有剧透 故事是简单的。展开是神奇的。缅怀是惆怅的。细思是略恐的。 一开始平常，主角回家参加一个葬礼，始终没提是谁的葬礼。 然后他回忆七岁那年发生的一件事。盖曼的惊悚常态出现。小猫被压死了...房客自杀了...邻居不寻常-----都用平常...  

我不说这本书。也不说尼尔·盖曼。 当对《石头记》《灵谿词说》一知半解的时候，我在昆德拉马尔克斯等一帮人的笔致下惊心动魄。 我托着脸望着他们。 郑姐姐正在摆谈，诗人在这个时代还没饿死，这真是个奇迹。 熊大大转了转手上的金戒指，楚辞洛神东坡肘子，一口茶后，一一信...  

译文版又一次让中文读者领先于英文读者，抢先读到了盖曼叔的这本文艺格调翻番的新作。这回的翻译完成得相当漂亮。插画方面也不赖。美版的封面文艺又孤独，中译本的则更子供向一些，被装点成一个温暖的画片集。 内容上，这回盖曼叔走的是罗伯特·麦卡蒙《奇风岁月》那种缅怀童...  

用户评价

3.5 虽然叙述角度是儿童但是这么黑的细节你确定这个是给孩子看的吗？笔下世界依旧精彩不过因为设定所限所有格局小了很多。三代Hempstock三位一体，祖母，母亲，女儿；过去，现在，未来。生于这个世界，我们只是过客。就像童年那朦胧宏大的冒险，在开出drive way之后，变得再次无法触及。Lattie回归了ocean，而我们，不管怎么尝试，只会记得她去了澳洲。就如同耳朵一边是白色的小黑猫一样，她们是永存的，出现又离开的是我们。

第一次在overdrive上面借audiobook。三星半。四天听完开头结尾就还了，看了看本书wiki，发现剧情笔记冗长黑暗，庆幸自己的安排。作者很用心，能感觉真诚、intimate，但是男主太过被动懦弱，没有成长线也没有感情线…

和其他Neil Gaiman的小说比起来，这本不太出色，笔调总是很阴暗，很奇怪的感觉。

As simple as children's book, but the meanings behind it are way beyond than what you expected. You will be surprised, like I did.

在亚马逊上买的的第一本书，第一本塞进Kindle的书，第一本读完的盖曼的原文书，太有纪念意义了。