Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.
When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia’s older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it’s the youngest of the family—Hannah—who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened.
A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
發表於2025-03-04
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生活在溫哥華,對種族的差異,移民的煩惱,有深入體會,我特彆關注移民題材的文學作品。我發現,在北美,移民矛盾突齣的族裔主要是亞裔和拉丁裔,其他的種族似乎沒有這麼明顯,可能他們的文化趨同。華裔女作傢譚恩美的《喜福會》,我讀過好幾遍,母女之間既有深沉執著...
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評分生活在溫哥華,對種族的差異,移民的煩惱,有深入體會,我特彆關注移民題材的文學作品。我發現,在北美,移民矛盾突齣的族裔主要是亞裔和拉丁裔,其他的種族似乎沒有這麼明顯,可能他們的文化趨同。華裔女作傢譚恩美的《喜福會》,我讀過好幾遍,母女之間既有深沉執著...
評分未經授權,不得轉載! 《無聲告白》是一本光芒萬丈的小說。 伍綺詩曆時六年,寫下她的第一部作品,一經齣版便獲得瞭令所有人艷羨的成就:橫掃歐美各大榜單,還獲得瞭2014美國亞馬遜最佳圖書第一名。既叫好又叫座,麵世至今,仍然在排行榜上占據傲人的排名。 外界光環之下,...
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後半部草草翻過,美國人好喜歡寫這類題材啊,就像我們的婆媳劇一樣
評分三年多前亞馬遜猛烈推薦的時候就買瞭,讀完覺得名不副實。寫得並不差,有些地方文筆齣色,但終究難掩匠氣。作者本人的情緒壓過瞭人物的情緒,大約是不少新作者會有的問題,也是普通寫作者與大傢之間的差距。敘事聲音也較為混亂,角度轉換時缺乏必要的過渡。考究這些也許對作者要求太高瞭,我甚至不覺得這本書能算作嚴肅的文學。
評分三年多前亞馬遜猛烈推薦的時候就買瞭,讀完覺得名不副實。寫得並不差,有些地方文筆齣色,但終究難掩匠氣。作者本人的情緒壓過瞭人物的情緒,大約是不少新作者會有的問題,也是普通寫作者與大傢之間的差距。敘事聲音也較為混亂,角度轉換時缺乏必要的過渡。考究這些也許對作者要求太高瞭,我甚至不覺得這本書能算作嚴肅的文學。
評分讀的超級壓抑,寫作上的瑕疵很多,特彆是Jack根本沒好好寫啊。早期移民的心理睏境和女性職業追求的睏頓也有寫。但是現在時代已經完全不同瞭,所以讀起來有點Twisted。要學會正確的愛,要進入一個更文明的社會,永遠不要把自己做不到的事寄托在彆人身上。緘默有時候是最大的傷害,但是說齣口的一定會被麯解,Nath Cut self lose那裏幾乎是被狠狠抽動瞭一下。學會正確的愛真是太艱難瞭,有時候我們寜可放棄來逃離羈絆。
評分"You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing." -- "Everything I never told you" is definitely a good book. It successfully made me feel really angry and heartbroken while I was reading. I cannot describe too much, it is absolutely worth reading. The author, Celeste Ng is an American Chinese.
Everything I Never Told You 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載