The Night Watch

萨拉·沃特斯（Sarah Waters）, 1966年出生于英国威尔士，文学博士。三度入围“布克奖”，两度入围“莱思纪念奖”。曾获“贝蒂·特拉斯克文学奖”、“毛姆文学奖”。被《星期日泰晤士报》评为“年度青年作家”（2000）、文学杂志《格兰塔》选为“20位当代最好的英国青年作家”之一（2003）、“英国图书奖”评为“年度作家”（2003）等，文学评论界称其为“当今活着的英语作家中最会讲故事的作家”。

作者:[英] 萨拉·沃特斯

页数:512

出版时间:2008-6

价格:60.00元

isbn号码:9781844085019

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller.

This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching . . . Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret . . . Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover . . . Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances...

Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.

读后感

读完《守夜》之后，有两个词留在了我心里——废墟与伤痕。 每每读完莎拉沃特斯笔下的那些背叛、欺骗、诡计，都会让我不可自制地被莎拉创造的绝望氛围笼罩中，悲念长久都得不到释放。如果说书本是精神粮食，那有些书本是给人以正面的力量，去健全读者的精神世界；而莎拉的书则...  

如果说荆棘之城和轻舔丝绒是口味虾和香辣蟹的话，守夜就是三鲜火锅，内容丰富又口味清淡。我想应该很多人读的时候会觉得它又杂乱又没有主次又不刺激。但是就是因为这样，让它在另外两本小说的光环下还能显得独特。 这是一本没有主角的小说，sw分给每种感情的笔墨...  

在第418页倒数第二段和最后一段之间： （此为倒数第二段）They held each other's gaze, in silence; then moved together and kissed. Helen was still not quite used to the difference between Julia's kisses, and Kay's-to the relative strangeness of Julia's mouth, ...  

国家没有灭亡，山河有待重整，1947年，战争完结，但万众期待的美丽新世界没有来临。《守夜》是华特斯第四本小说，离开了维多利亚时代，仍是不离不弃地关于伦敦。 战后的伦敦，凯在街头踽踽独行，一个人去影院看半场电影。海伦和维维在婚介所向战争中失去伴侣者介绍对象，朱丽亚...