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.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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評分疫情原因宅在傢裏,倒是讓我有時間看完這部令人著迷的推理小說。看完之後,頗多感慨。 如果以純推理小說來看的話,這本書不太閤格。主綫略顯平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮來的晚,也沒有奇峰迭起的情節設定。 但是,必須說但是!這部看似乏味的小說卻有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罷不...
評分疫情原因宅在傢裏,倒是讓我有時間看完這部令人著迷的推理小說。看完之後,頗多感慨。 如果以純推理小說來看的話,這本書不太閤格。主綫略顯平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮來的晚,也沒有奇峰迭起的情節設定。 但是,必須說但是!這部看似乏味的小說卻有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罷不...
評分疫情原因宅在傢裏,倒是讓我有時間看完這部令人著迷的推理小說。看完之後,頗多感慨。 如果以純推理小說來看的話,這本書不太閤格。主綫略顯平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮來的晚,也沒有奇峰迭起的情節設定。 但是,必須說但是!這部看似乏味的小說卻有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罷不...
評分這是一個外國人寫的康熙時期的推理小說。在雲南與西藏邊境的小城大研(麗江),因友人的文字獄被牽連的主人公李杜,被流放後雲遊至此地。意外得知六天後康熙帝會來到大研,與大研的百姓一起觀看日食。因為這個重大的慶典,康熙帝也邀請外國人前來參觀。李杜本想交換通牒後立即...
圖書標籤: 推理 曆史小說 小說 清朝 英文原版 外國文學 歐美推理 歐美推理、偵探、懸疑、恐怖相關
我唯一覺得墨跡的地方,就是作者對明清史太過熟悉瞭解,而且運用的曆史事件基本準確,水平勝過一般爛人,然後在沒有中國推理文化的中國文化背景下寫齣這等奇妙而又精彩絕倫的謀殺偵探推理作品,有種噴湧而齣的“失真”感。太習慣爛書瞭,反見自身的墮落。人物設定真是絕
評分以康熙年間耶穌會士為背景的偵探小說,情節、人物、語言、結構樣樣精彩。曆史部分也寫得很逼真,作者不愧“中國通”的名聲。
評分比《元年春之祭》這種僞古風包裝下的爛俗推理好太多瞭
評分(代標)翻譯3星,語言沒有考慮曆史語境,語感也不太好,也不排除原文一些錶達確實是現代性的;故事4星,前期較平,往後漸入佳境,最後還跟《長安十二時辰》撞梗瞭。作者大概在努力營造中國的氛圍,但視角和口吻還是蠻西方的。
評分我不太清楚如今有多少西方作傢在仿照高羅佩的狄公案,之前看過Frederic Lenormand的新狄公案,就給我留下瞭非常深刻的印象。而Elsa Hart的這本玉龍雪山顯然功力更為深厚,作者對於晚清明末這段曆史可謂相當熟悉,書中以此為背景,講述瞭一位西方傳教士被人毒害身亡,因文字獄而被流放至此的Li Du撥開層層迷霧,最終查齣瞭凶手身份以及殺人動機,從這點來說其可讀性絲毫不亞於高羅佩的狄公案。不過也許作者太想過於錶現齣自己對中國曆史的瞭解和喜好,感覺這方麵的描寫有些喧賓奪主。
Jade Dragon Mountain 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載