Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.
She was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 Madeleine was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising writer under age 30.
Thien's first book, Simple Recipes (2001), a collection of short stories, received the City of Vancouver Book Award, the VanCity Book Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel, Certainty, has been published internationally. It won the Amazon.com / Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize.
发表于2024-12-22
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In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent, to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today.
第一次有这样的感觉:恰恰是两个男人,让情感更纯粹了。 命运书写的故事到底会有几个开始,几个结尾?
评分2016布克奖大热门作品,在 Goodread 上有很高的人气。这几年海外华裔作家的作品已经逐渐开始脱离以 Amy Tan 为代表的对华人移民身份认同问题的探讨,而开始与上世纪8、90年代那批去国作家的视角相契合。书中通过讲述两家三代人在从内战到今天近70年的风雨变迁,来尝试还原共和国的历史。作者邓敏灵用温婉的语言刻意营造出一种沉重与无奈。与古典音乐的互动是本书的一大亮点——一边听着书中出现的曲目,一边阅读本书着实是一种不可多得的享受。不过如@卡列宁的微笑 所言,本书说教味过浓,在塑造人物时过于强调对情节的推动和故事意义的传递,一定程度上让人物的特点不够突出,如果互换 Sparrow、Big Knife Mother、Zhu Li 的角色,似乎也并不影响故事的发展。
评分2016布克奖大热门作品,在 Goodread 上有很高的人气。这几年海外华裔作家的作品已经逐渐开始脱离以 Amy Tan 为代表的对华人移民身份认同问题的探讨,而开始与上世纪8、90年代那批去国作家的视角相契合。书中通过讲述两家三代人在从内战到今天近70年的风雨变迁,来尝试还原共和国的历史。作者邓敏灵用温婉的语言刻意营造出一种沉重与无奈。与古典音乐的互动是本书的一大亮点——一边听着书中出现的曲目,一边阅读本书着实是一种不可多得的享受。不过如@卡列宁的微笑 所言,本书说教味过浓,在塑造人物时过于强调对情节的推动和故事意义的传递,一定程度上让人物的特点不够突出,如果互换 Sparrow、Big Knife Mother、Zhu Li 的角色,似乎也并不影响故事的发展。
评分161125讀了幾章 看到對數學的描述才想起來/讀慣繁轉簡像"reading a letter from the future, or talking to someone who had turned their back on her/feared my childhood would pass before he finished his sentence/Stupid me, I thought the war ended in 1949/Could daylight be a form of blindness?"/大衛和MayForth的故事好想知道/龜孫子 嚇得魂都掉了之類的表達轉為英文和時不時的古詩感覺略刻意 Swirl和BigMotherKnife打包著突然就床前明月光這種
评分161125讀了幾章 看到對數學的描述才想起來/讀慣繁轉簡像"reading a letter from the future, or talking to someone who had turned their back on her/feared my childhood would pass before he finished his sentence/Stupid me, I thought the war ended in 1949/Could daylight be a form of blindness?"/大衛和MayForth的故事好想知道/龜孫子 嚇得魂都掉了之類的表達轉為英文和時不時的古詩感覺略刻意 Swirl和BigMotherKnife打包著突然就床前明月光這種
Do Not Say We Have Nothing 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书