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.
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.
可能是我對作者名氣寄予厚望瞭,所以讀後有一點小失望。不過如果你喜歡島上書店這類小說,應該也會喜歡這本。綜閤評分3.5星。 (有一定劇透) 本文結構★★★★ 這部小說的齣彩之處,正是在於結構的巧妙設計。全書分為兩部,第一部小說背景設立在1945年的英國,正是二戰後期,...
評分“1945 年,我們的父母走瞭,把我們留給兩個可能是罪犯的人照看。”(In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.) 這是《戰時燈火》開頭的第一句話。如果去掉時間 1945 年和地點倫敦,完全可以直接開始一個續寫大賽,讓走...
評分開始接觸這本書,是被浦東圖書館公眾號送書活動的一篇文章吸引,主題是“看完這本書,可以對所有的耿耿於懷都能放下”,之後種草好久,在去年雙十二拿下。今天,終於看完瞭,老實說,看的不是那麼暢快。如果不是迴頭翻看瞭那篇公眾號的文章,我已經忘記當初種草的理由瞭。整本...
評分我還是最愛Part1。讀到中間段落其實內心裏已經有些明瞭瞭,翁達傑在Part1裏描述的十分動人,迷惘之下缺失且一直在尋找著的,不乏戰火中與能引起共情的相同缺失,但同時也是在獨有細膩之處串起種種片段。後麵偶爾感覺有些脫離,但讓我感受到並且沉迷於他的真切之處在於,尋找與迷失之下又不乏那對這世間即使毫無迴路之處的繾綣與留戀。
评分太喜歡Olive瞭,在二戰和冷戰接連不斷的創傷中,她就是自由和鮮活的化身,極盡灑脫~~真正的自由,是把自己還給自己。
评分一口氣看完瞭。喜歡!保留瞭英國病人的詩一樣的語言和精美的記憶片段拼接圖一樣的講述方法,但是故事比英國病人要緊湊易讀。fascinating to see his characters in the city...
评分應該集中時間一口氣讀完的,最好一週內;這樣章節間交織的不確定的記憶、身份、謊言、秘密……纔能恰到好處地揉閤到一起,品齣時間的苦香。Ondaatje依然在反高潮式地寫作,總是能用寥寥一百多字的段落揭露一個人物的內心、或者生活細小物件摺射的命運悲歡。沒有English Patient 精湛,但依然讓人沉溺。#201901
评分封麵很傳神瞭:故事中加上迷霧、噪點,是倫敦的基調是戰爭的暗湧。作者的筆觸是往故事上營造其顆粒感,過期膠捲與雙重曝光。初期如同愛麗絲漫遊仙境般,有種探險的刺激感。隨著故事往前推進,就不再是一場愉悅的冒險瞭。是英國病人的味道(並未讀過其他小說),語言依舊很美,但更為緻鬱一些。沒想到後麵還有講到……布局也是很精心。有時候確實是能猜到故事的走嚮,所以可能略有點刻意。
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