Elsa Hart was born in Rome, Italy, but her earliest memories are of Moscow, where her family lived until 1991. Since then she has lived in the Czech Republic, the U.S.A., and China. She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She wrote Jade Dragon Mountain in Lijiang, the city formerly known as Dayan. It is her first novel.
发表于2024-11-02
Jade Dragon Mountain 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
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On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.
When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.
Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.
http://lockedroom.net/blog/?p=3178 主线剧情平庸,但支线数量庞大,尤其是结尾接二连三地引爆隐藏真相,十分过瘾。人物众多,红鲱鱼层出不穷,指明真凶的唯一一条伏线还用到冷知识。中间一起和主线完全无关的狄仁杰密室非常出彩。作者是中国通,行文好像在看英文版《功夫熊猫》。
评分Librarians, Jesuits, traveling scholars, astronomer and storyteller....期望值有点高,所以后面有些失望. 总的来说仍然是非常西方的叙事手法,建构在一个东方的背景里。以及,好多句式感觉似曾相识,有点“套路”。开头时用英文读中国故事的那种熟悉的陌生感逐渐被消解了。 P.S. Kangxi 前面加个定冠词the是什么用法,感觉很别扭。
评分还不错啊。看到教士、草药和设计精妙的藏书阁,本以为是茶马古道版玫瑰之名,结果还是走的经典推理路线。
评分断断续续花了一个月才把这本书看完,看来我的英语水平还是要练,以外国人来说,能把中国古代还原到这种程度已经难能可贵。推理方面可以体现出非常纯正的本格古典推理风格。值得一看,期待下一部的white mirror
评分没想到这居然是今年看完的第一本英文书,看到倒数第二章的时候想给四星的但是最后一章又觉得值五星了,人物写得都很好,男主特别苏,里面的小故事和主线及主要支线之间的关系设置得有趣,另外还有文字书写/故事之间的好玩的讨论。。。
Jade Dragon Mountain 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书