Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned a 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.

出版者:Penguin Books

作者:Celeste Ng

页数:320

出版时间:2015-5-12

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780143127550

图书标签:英文原版小说美国家庭青少年外国文学英语CelesteNg

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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 is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. 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.

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读后感

读这本小说的时候，正是今年高考出分、考生填报志愿的关头。听爸妈说，今年又有失意的考生选择了轻生。好事者传言，勾勒出了这女孩的轮廓。不错，一个莉迪亚。平日里品学兼优，成绩一直不错，高考时失误，一本线都没上，受不了打击，绝尘一跃，生命在一片血色中化为乌有。 也...  

Lydia死了，可他们还不知道。 伍绮诗的第一部小说以这两句开头，可谓是用心良苦。“Lydia死了”：故事还未开始，结局就已昭然若揭，却给全篇留下巨大悬念：Lydia是谁？她怎么死的？为何而死？读者将在作者的带领下用一整本书去寻找答案。“可他们还不知道”：看似是...

在莎士比亚的世界里，悲剧分为命运的悲剧和性格的悲剧，前者是无常的强大世界对弱小人类的捉弄和摧毁，后者则是人类自身的缺点所导致的灾难——悲剧的中心总是人类，然而如果真以人类为中心去考虑的话，所有悲剧的来源其实只有一个——无知，亦可以说是佛教中所说的“无明”。 ...  

本书的英文名《那些我从未告诉你的事》，就是这本书的概括。那些事，是近在咫尺的亲人也未必了然于心的，甚至，仍然充满了误解。透过这个少数族群的题材，作者所写的乃是人类共同的处境。人的沟通是可能的吗？如果不能，那就让作家让这一切实现，于是就有了这本《无声告白》。 ...  

To be honest I haven't read such an overwhelming novel in ages. Well technically any novels just to be fair. It has everything a thriller should have: A missing/dead girl, a seemingly normal family that had something weird buried in somewhere, a strange b...  

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