Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first two novels, The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. The Thing About December was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and the title story of A Slanting of the Sun won the writing.ie Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. His third novel, All We Shall Know, will be published in autumn 2016. Donal holds a Writing Fellowship at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.
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A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan.
For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea.
Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his small town life in Ireland. He has the city girl for a bit of fun, but she's not Chloe, and Chloe took his heart away when she left him. There's the secret his mother will never tell him. His granddad's little sniping jokes are getting on his wick. And on top of all that, he has a bus to drive; those old folks from the home can't wait all day.
The game was always the lifeblood coursing through John's veins: manipulating people for his enjoyment, or his enrichment, or his spite. But it was never enough. The ghost of his beloved brother, and the bitter disappointment of his father, have shadowed him all his life. But now that lifeblood is slowing down, and he's not sure if God will listen to his pleas for forgiveness. Three men, searching for some version of home, their lives moving inexorably towards a reckoning that will draw them all together.
2018年布克奖长名单入围作品(希望能够更进一步,入围短名单甚至是斩获大奖);实际上,生于1976年的Donal Ryan(比较遗憾的是,其作品国内暂无中译本出版)早在2012年便凭借着其处女作The Spinning Heart入围了当年布克奖的长名单。回到作品本身,这本小书的可读性与文学性都不错,作者通过自己拿手的多角度叙事(早在其处女作中,Ryan便将这一技巧发挥的淋漓尽致——那本书里有多达21个“声音”在讲述各自的故事!),以细腻的笔触,纯属的文学技巧,典雅的叙事展现了三位主人公的心路历程,并在最后一部分让三人的人生产生了微妙的联系。作者的行文流畅,文字不俗,且能在看似平常的生活表象之下“发掘”出人类内心的波澜起伏与情感涌动。这本关于寻找失去之物的小说读来的确让人动容。
评分2018年布克奖长名单入围作品(希望能够更进一步,入围短名单甚至是斩获大奖);实际上,生于1976年的Donal Ryan(比较遗憾的是,其作品国内暂无中译本出版)早在2012年便凭借着其处女作The Spinning Heart入围了当年布克奖的长名单。回到作品本身,这本小书的可读性与文学性都不错,作者通过自己拿手的多角度叙事(早在其处女作中,Ryan便将这一技巧发挥的淋漓尽致——那本书里有多达21个“声音”在讲述各自的故事!),以细腻的笔触,纯属的文学技巧,典雅的叙事展现了三位主人公的心路历程,并在最后一部分让三人的人生产生了微妙的联系。作者的行文流畅,文字不俗,且能在看似平常的生活表象之下“发掘”出人类内心的波澜起伏与情感涌动。这本关于寻找失去之物的小说读来的确让人动容。
评分第一印象是prose写得真棒!在三个主要人物各自的章节里,文字风格还不尽相同,长短句之间的轻松切换将叙述者的情绪、性格和思想状态都表现得很到位。难民Farouk的经历不算离奇,但是作者营造出了足够的悬疑效果,使得人物和事件的信息像滴水的龙头一样缓缓淌出;Lampy的故事其实就发生在一天之内,时间和事件在他的回忆和飘忽的思绪中来回穿梭,倒是很符合一个深受感情、家庭和未来困扰的青年的心境;尤其是John的部分转变为一个第一人称的告白,那种看似迂回唠叨的讲述,不断将核心事件的揭示往后推迟,很有Banville和Marias的味道,villain的形象塑造得挺成功。最后三十多页将三条情节线收拢起来,但明显没有前面三章引人入胜,反而给人一种草草收尾的感觉。整体来看,文学性和可读性都算不错。
评分2018年布克奖长名单入围作品(希望能够更进一步,入围短名单甚至是斩获大奖);实际上,生于1976年的Donal Ryan(比较遗憾的是,其作品国内暂无中译本出版)早在2012年便凭借着其处女作The Spinning Heart入围了当年布克奖的长名单。回到作品本身,这本小书的可读性与文学性都不错,作者通过自己拿手的多角度叙事(早在其处女作中,Ryan便将这一技巧发挥的淋漓尽致——那本书里有多达21个“声音”在讲述各自的故事!),以细腻的笔触,纯属的文学技巧,典雅的叙事展现了三位主人公的心路历程,并在最后一部分让三人的人生产生了微妙的联系。作者的行文流畅,文字不俗,且能在看似平常的生活表象之下“发掘”出人类内心的波澜起伏与情感涌动。这本关于寻找失去之物的小说读来的确让人动容。
评分2018年布克奖长名单入围作品(希望能够更进一步,入围短名单甚至是斩获大奖);实际上,生于1976年的Donal Ryan(比较遗憾的是,其作品国内暂无中译本出版)早在2012年便凭借着其处女作The Spinning Heart入围了当年布克奖的长名单。回到作品本身,这本小书的可读性与文学性都不错,作者通过自己拿手的多角度叙事(早在其处女作中,Ryan便将这一技巧发挥的淋漓尽致——那本书里有多达21个“声音”在讲述各自的故事!),以细腻的笔触,纯属的文学技巧,典雅的叙事展现了三位主人公的心路历程,并在最后一部分让三人的人生产生了微妙的联系。作者的行文流畅,文字不俗,且能在看似平常的生活表象之下“发掘”出人类内心的波澜起伏与情感涌动。这本关于寻找失去之物的小说读来的确让人动容。
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