Susan Barker (born 1978) is a British novelist. She has an English father and a Chinese-Malaysian mother and grew up in East London. She is the author of the novel Sayonara Bar, which Time magazine called "a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist" and The Orientalist and the Ghost, both longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Her third novel The Incarnations is about a taxi driver in contemporary Beijing and interwoven with tales from the Tang dynasty, the invasion of Genghis Khan, the Ming dynasty, the Opium War, and the Cultural Revolution. While writing The Incarnations she spent several years living in Beijing, researching modern and imperial China.
Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city’s congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.
Other letters follow, taking Wang back in time: to a spirit-bride in the Tang Dynasty; to young slaves during the Mongol invasion; to concubines plotting to kill the emperor; to a kidnapping in the Opium War; and to Red Guards during the Cultural revolution.
And with each letter, Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer …
發表於2024-12-24
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圖書標籤: 中國 曆史 小說 文化 英文原版 (English) 外國文學 FICTION
外國人寫給外國人看的中國網絡穿越小說,作者真是對自己的文筆自戀到爆,看到結尾想揍她一頓。
評分外國人來寫當下中國,切開中國血管,微觀層麵展現中國的何偉被視為極有野心,Susan B的野心不小於何偉。她想寫中國人,寫韆百年來中國人為瞭生存可以如何沒有底綫不擇手段,又盲目崇拜一些信仰,比如父親的愛,君王的寵,戀人的絕對被控製,閹割的太監覺得伺候皇帝是一種榮譽,譽滿京城的妓女為瞭尋找父親任人宰割,從俘虜途中逃生的同性戀人又想俘虜自己的戀人,皇帝指使一個嬪妃刀割另一個嬪妃,相殺相虐相互背叛。小說用08年北京一個齣租車的前世今生串起瞭六個時代背景:唐朝、金朝、明朝、清朝、文革和2008年,構成瞭一種強烈的魔幻現實主義。特點很鮮明。扣兩星,一是政治隱喻太強烈,有漢娜阿特倫納《極權主義的世界》之感,另文筆實在欠加,故事鑲嵌不夠緊密,中間試圖跳過一段故事,絲毫不影響整體上的閱讀和感受。
評分外國人寫給外國人看的中國網絡穿越小說,作者真是對自己的文筆自戀到爆,看到結尾想揍她一頓。
評分概括一下就是兩個精神病人的韆古情仇 中間部分的輪迴寫的好拖遝 最後三分之一還有點意思 有一點好奇的是 大部分人名都是中文名翻譯的名字 唯獨Echo是英文名
評分概括一下就是兩個精神病人的韆古情仇 中間部分的輪迴寫的好拖遝 最後三分之一還有點意思 有一點好奇的是 大部分人名都是中文名翻譯的名字 唯獨Echo是英文名
The Incarnations 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載