Michael Ondaatje is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
发表于2024-04-27
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说实话,我对翁达杰的《英国病人》并没有太大好感,所以也没有抱着高期待来读这本书。但事实是,读着读着便陷入了“耿耿于怀”的境地,于是怨念起书封的标语,简直是虚假营销。翁达杰的笔触相当的温柔,因此尽管随着故事的展开,心中的郁结隐隐加深,但心碎的感觉总会被微弱的...
评分一本充满了反转的好书,正如它的名字。与我最初预期的不同,Warlight,本来看到“灯火”二字的反应应是明亮而温暖的,而所谓战时灯火的意思,是因为在战时为了防止空袭而实施的宵禁,关掉所有的灯只留下必要的,在昏暗的灯光照料下的黑漆漆的泰晤士河水。 所以,战时灯火的意义...
评分很多事情,我们有时候很久很久都不能忘, 也许是一些开心的事儿, 也许是一些伤心的事儿。 开心的事情最后变成了美好的回忆, 而伤心的事情最后变成了心里的一根刺。 曾经一个朋友提到过有仇当场就报, 确实, 谁也没有那个闲工夫去记仇,当场就报算得上一个态度。 也相当的洒...
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
第一部分差点弃了,好在第二部分看到草蛇灰线
评分4 把二戰這個爛大街的題材玩出新花樣不是易事,把視角放在追尋真相的少年身上,真正的主角是戰後處於迷霧夜色裡的英國。離Ondaatje最好的水平有一段距離,但還是足夠精彩細膩。Rose延續他筆下女主背負著神秘過去的歷史,在天空翱翔自由的Olive有點像Anil,反而男主角最後那個驚天秘密頗為狗血。
评分读翁达杰的文字需要耐心和智慧,看透碎片式叙述之后藏着的那些联系,如同最后发现的Agnes缝好挂在墙上的毯子,full of codes and unspoken agonies. 虽然跟英国病人的宏大比,这本关于冷战的谍战小说有些重复,但有那么几句话,让人心头一紧。 We change, we evolve. We are what we are for all our sufferings and mistakes in the past. 结尾那段宛若对这本小说呓语般叙述方式的反映:We order our lives with barely held stories. As if we have been lost in a confusing landscape.
评分对于人生残缺的篇章,有的人执意舍去,像姐姐Rachel,有的人长久凝视,固执要找到那些“我本该知道的”答案,正如Nat。而当我一次次重返故事,看到特工母亲用尽方式保护子女周全,却对自己缺席的原因讳莫如深,看到Nat时常怀疑父母离场的那段时间自己到底拥有过什么,等到母亲最终归来,换来的也只是沉默,‘I grew up with your silence...’,终于明白家国使命,人心阻隔,缺席的日子早已在两人之间划出长路迢迢。 时间力拨千钧,而人能挽回的太少,Rachel对弟弟说‘we are damaged, choose your own life’,其实是对的。 我以为我可以在这个故事里,为那些离散的遗憾找到偿还,但原来生活中无法做到的,在故事中也同样无能为力。那些独自穿越的
评分what I am now was formed by whatever happened to me then, not by what I have achieved, but by how I got here. 一点点剥开迷雾 细腻 动人
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