Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry's Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
发表于2023-04-01
Normal People 2023 pdf epub mobi 电子书
很久没有见过这么会讲故事的作者了。整段整段细致入微又一字不多的叙事,充满了机灵。自己身边每刻发生的事情那么多,怎么就不能如此细腻地去体验。“从很小的时候起,她的生活就不寻常,这点她知道。但到了现在,时间之下覆盖了太多事情,就像叶子掉落,覆盖一片土地,最终混...
评分 评分 评分 评分图书标签: 小说 SallyRonney 爱尔兰文学 爱尔兰 英国文学 英文原著 文学 英文原版
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.
This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.
考虑到这本书赢得了多少奖项,我感到不知所措。我读了她作为新人等成文坛大放光彩的那本Conversition with friends,那确实是一个几乎满足“现代”故事所有要求的完成度极高的小说:在相当平凡,却对个人非常有意义的事情上流利地向前推进,而不依赖制造外部紧张的硬核情节。她描述了关系变化的本质,以及作为一个有独立感觉的个体而产生的“孤立”,必然将你与他人分开。我喜欢她所有的主题,然而还是没能喜欢上她的书。午休时和同事站在书店里翻完了这本新书,在读书方面我其实很容易被燃起热情,可惜Sally两本声誉过人的书,可能都不会在我大脑里停留太久。
评分Marxist痴迷的阶级对比,Connell在小镇上万人迷,到了Dublin立刻被打回原型,十八线县城高考状元到了超一线大城市瞬间迷失的感觉,Marianne open-minded有钱人小地方受尽冷眼,到了大城市富人圈中如鱼得水。特别喜欢Sally Rooney对复杂心理的compartmentalization。
评分Such a page-tuner! 特别戳QAQ在床上看得眼睛湿湿,我真的只有18岁。故事立意当然不深刻,且最后一章点题也太俗套了,但人与人的羁绊不就这样吗。喜欢作者写的对话,没有标点间隔而显得延绵不绝毫无边界,就好像我经历过的那些情愫氤氲的夏天,以为是终点却更像是转折点。People can really change one another. 多一星感情分吧算我眼泪投的票
评分看完去年的初作就已经觉得幸福得不行,今年这个更加深刻更加感动,内脏要烧起来。不要现实生活了,就这样全盘接受作家给画的梦吧。
评分前半本都非常喜欢,特别戳我,自卑的女孩和有点渣的帅男生好朋友,后来的故事不太喜欢,感觉为了丧而丧,但想想看似纠缠多年的故事也只是高中和大学,确实是年轻人比较作的时候,而那时的感情都觉得比天还大,殊不知人生之后的路还长着,这些人和事都会越看越渺小。作者写小女生心理还是很细腻的,也很erotic,但用词很重复。
Normal People 2023 pdf epub mobi 电子书