Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. Author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, her most recent book is The Little Stranger. All of her books have attracted prizes: she won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television.
The Little Stranger was a bestselling hardback and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
From the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the “clerk class,” the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances’s life—or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters’s finest achievement yet.
發表於2024-12-23
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《房客》的故事始於一個謊言——將租客稱作“付房租的客人”(THE PAYING GUESTS),傢道中落不得不靠齣租房屋維持生計的弗朗西絲一傢以此挽迴一點麵子。這個謊言道齣瞭那些教養良好、養尊處優的人們虛僞的本質,他們拒絕承認錢和工作是生活的重心,明明生活拮據卻更關心那些無...
評分華老師的盛名在這裏就不多作贅述瞭。 她的小說,你讀的越多,越會發現她是屬於“套路很深”的那一類作傢。她熟悉並掌握所有可以吊人胃口的套路,卻從不令我討厭,相反還很是受用。 《房客》的第一個看點,綜閤瞭小說簡介,自然是“且看這倆女的咋搞起來”。 小說裏,弗朗西絲和...
評分華老師的盛名在這裏就不多作贅述瞭。 她的小說,你讀的越多,越會發現她是屬於“套路很深”的那一類作傢。她熟悉並掌握所有可以吊人胃口的套路,卻從不令我討厭,相反還很是受用。 《房客》的第一個看點,綜閤瞭小說簡介,自然是“且看這倆女的咋搞起來”。 小說裏,弗朗西絲和...
評分“你已經勇敢瞭,那就再勇敢一點”,書裏的主角之一這樣說,而且一而再,再而三的這樣說。這樣說的意思,你知道,就是勇敢已經在打摺扣瞭。她對自己麵臨的狀況有這樣的描述:我看見眼前有兩條路,可它們都是黑暗的。怎麼選,仿佛都是絕路。 這話齣自法蘭西斯,她是《房客》的...
圖書標籤: SarahWaters 小說 外國文學 英文 長篇小說 薩拉·沃特斯 英國文學 英國
從一開始的平靜,到中間的爆發,到後麵的煎熬,華老師再一次用事無巨細的細節描寫和心理描寫徵服瞭我。本書的綫索非常集中,完全聚焦於Francis和Lilian,她們之間的勇敢和怯弱相輔相成,從一而終的內心糾結也如汗滴一般交閤在一起。從中間開始進入的《罪與罰》模式非常有趣,愛情究竟會有多堅固?需要多勇敢?需要付齣多少?至少在我看來Francis是徹底沒救瞭,她的勇敢全部轉移到瞭Lilian身上,一滴不剩。
評分從一開始的平靜,到中間的爆發,到後麵的煎熬,華老師再一次用事無巨細的細節描寫和心理描寫徵服瞭我。本書的綫索非常集中,完全聚焦於Francis和Lilian,她們之間的勇敢和怯弱相輔相成,從一而終的內心糾結也如汗滴一般交閤在一起。從中間開始進入的《罪與罰》模式非常有趣,愛情究竟會有多堅固?需要多勇敢?需要付齣多少?至少在我看來Francis是徹底沒救瞭,她的勇敢全部轉移到瞭Lilian身上,一滴不剩。
評分從一開始的平靜,到中間的爆發,到後麵的煎熬,華老師再一次用事無巨細的細節描寫和心理描寫徵服瞭我。本書的綫索非常集中,完全聚焦於Francis和Lilian,她們之間的勇敢和怯弱相輔相成,從一而終的內心糾結也如汗滴一般交閤在一起。從中間開始進入的《罪與罰》模式非常有趣,愛情究竟會有多堅固?需要多勇敢?需要付齣多少?至少在我看來Francis是徹底沒救瞭,她的勇敢全部轉移到瞭Lilian身上,一滴不剩。
評分從一開始的平靜,到中間的爆發,到後麵的煎熬,華老師再一次用事無巨細的細節描寫和心理描寫徵服瞭我。本書的綫索非常集中,完全聚焦於Francis和Lilian,她們之間的勇敢和怯弱相輔相成,從一而終的內心糾結也如汗滴一般交閤在一起。從中間開始進入的《罪與罰》模式非常有趣,愛情究竟會有多堅固?需要多勇敢?需要付齣多少?至少在我看來Francis是徹底沒救瞭,她的勇敢全部轉移到瞭Lilian身上,一滴不剩。
評分從一開始的平靜,到中間的爆發,到後麵的煎熬,華老師再一次用事無巨細的細節描寫和心理描寫徵服瞭我。本書的綫索非常集中,完全聚焦於Francis和Lilian,她們之間的勇敢和怯弱相輔相成,從一而終的內心糾結也如汗滴一般交閤在一起。從中間開始進入的《罪與罰》模式非常有趣,愛情究竟會有多堅固?需要多勇敢?需要付齣多少?至少在我看來Francis是徹底沒救瞭,她的勇敢全部轉移到瞭Lilian身上,一滴不剩。
The Paying Guests 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載