Rene Denfeld is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, Mitigation Specialist, and fact Investigator in death penalty cases. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer and is a published author of four books including the international bestseller The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order, Kill The Body, The Head Will Fall, and All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families.
A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King.
"This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life.
Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners’ pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption—ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own.
Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most nightmarish reality.
發表於2024-11-05
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I picked up this book because of the high praises it has recieved. I was also intrigued by the topic: a grim and haunting story takes place in a cold, crimpling prison. Naturally I knew I wasn't heading for an uplifting tale (but was still hoping perhaps ...
評分I picked up this book because of the high praises it has recieved. I was also intrigued by the topic: a grim and haunting story takes place in a cold, crimpling prison. Naturally I knew I wasn't heading for an uplifting tale (but was still hoping perhaps ...
評分I picked up this book because of the high praises it has recieved. I was also intrigued by the topic: a grim and haunting story takes place in a cold, crimpling prison. Naturally I knew I wasn't heading for an uplifting tale (but was still hoping perhaps ...
評分I picked up this book because of the high praises it has recieved. I was also intrigued by the topic: a grim and haunting story takes place in a cold, crimpling prison. Naturally I knew I wasn't heading for an uplifting tale (but was still hoping perhaps ...
評分I picked up this book because of the high praises it has recieved. I was also intrigued by the topic: a grim and haunting story takes place in a cold, crimpling prison. Naturally I knew I wasn't heading for an uplifting tale (but was still hoping perhaps ...
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這些不幸的人 唉......... 比被判死刑更恐怖的是他們的遭遇
評分用浪漫主義筆觸寫的某個(有代錶性的?)美國監獄——特彆是死囚牢房的——唯美悲傷小諷刺的故事。大傢的名字幾乎都被代號替代:為死囚上訴的“那個女士”;“典獄長”悲傷地看著癌癥彌留的妻子,感受到瞭求死的死刑犯被拖入上訴程序的諷刺;“神父”對於情感的想觸碰又縮手;“白發男孩”像牆壁間的幽魂……最後大傢都從某種意義上得到瞭解脫,從這間叫enchanted的監獄。
評分這些不幸的人 唉......... 比被判死刑更恐怖的是他們的遭遇
評分比較壓抑的一本書。是以一個關在古老監獄地牢裏的死囚的視角寫的。小說中的人物似乎背後都有著不為人道的悲劇。妻子癌癥晚期最後撒手人寰留下自己孤單一人的典獄長,母親智障以至於自己屢次被人侵犯最後被送去福利機構的the lady,愛上脫衣舞娘卻拋棄她導緻她自殺的牧師,瘋母親被全鎮的男人侵犯連自己的父親是誰都不知道後來連自己也跟著被侵犯的York,新入獄卻被監獄的霸頭看上成為霸頭和貪汙的獄警交易的犧牲品的白發男孩......主人公的身份到最後一刻纔揭曉,我猜對瞭。到最後讀齣瞭筆者對愛的呼籲,這些悲劇人物,哪怕是奸殺犯、連環殺手、小孩殺手也都是渴望著愛的,如果社會、大傢多一些關愛,或許就能減少甚至阻止怪物的誕生和悲劇的發生瞭。
評分比較壓抑的一本書。是以一個關在古老監獄地牢裏的死囚的視角寫的。小說中的人物似乎背後都有著不為人道的悲劇。妻子癌癥晚期最後撒手人寰留下自己孤單一人的典獄長,母親智障以至於自己屢次被人侵犯最後被送去福利機構的the lady,愛上脫衣舞娘卻拋棄她導緻她自殺的牧師,瘋母親被全鎮的男人侵犯連自己的父親是誰都不知道後來連自己也跟著被侵犯的York,新入獄卻被監獄的霸頭看上成為霸頭和貪汙的獄警交易的犧牲品的白發男孩......主人公的身份到最後一刻纔揭曉,我猜對瞭。到最後讀齣瞭筆者對愛的呼籲,這些悲劇人物,哪怕是奸殺犯、連環殺手、小孩殺手也都是渴望著愛的,如果社會、大傢多一些關愛,或許就能減少甚至阻止怪物的誕生和悲劇的發生瞭。
The Enchanted 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載