1955年生于加拿大一个传教士家庭。幼年随父母至新几内亚高地一个原始部落传教,少年时返回家乡进入神学院就读,成年后移居美国。从事过保险、建筑、创业基金、电信、销售等多种行业。因婚姻遭遇坎坷,开始接受心理治疗,试图同妻子与家人和解。2003年宣告破产,房子也被拍卖,只好白天在朋友经营的小科技公司任职,晚上兼职以度时日。
威廉常年保持写作的习惯,但只是给朋友看看。妻子力劝他为儿女写下内心经历的情感沧桑,以及对信仰、感恩、宽容的看法,于是写出《棚屋》初稿,并向出版社投稿。结果连遭26家出版社拒绝,只得与两位好友成立了一家出版社自费出版《棚屋》。没有广告,没有媒体宣传,完全依靠读者的口口相传,出版半年后,竟登上《纽约时报》畅销榜第一名!
正如《纽约时报》给予的崇高赞誉:“没有媒体的狂轰滥炸,没有奥普拉的推荐,全凭民间的口口相传,《棚屋》创造了销量超过1000万册的奇迹。”
《棚屋》已被翻译为35种文字在全球100多个国家和地区公开发行。
发表于2025-02-10
The Shack 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这曾是一本名不见经传的书,却靠人们的口口相传而备受欢迎,甚至半年内拿下《纽约时报》畅销榜第一名。是的,我也是通过朋友的推荐而与它相知相识。这本书读起来很艰难,但它不像《查拉图斯特拉如是说》一样难以理解,一方面,我惊讶自己能够静下心来在两天内读完,另一方面却...
评分这本书读得很难,很艰难。 我承认,最初拿起这本书,因为想知道那个悬念。 想知道凶手最终会怎么了,想知道上帝是否会献身。 这已经是21世纪了啊,上帝?上帝是什么东西?怎么会有上帝? 在一个没有信仰也没有畏惧的时代里,这些问题是不是太搞了? 但是读过几章,读过了烤一个...
评分英格玛·伯格曼的影片《处女泉》中,虔诚的父亲在得知女儿被强暴并杀害后,悲号“神啊,我不懂你”。而加拿大作家威廉·扬的小说《棚屋》则试图站从上帝的立场来回答神为何会容忍美好的弱小被无端杀死而不出手干预。在《棚屋》中,麦克的小女儿梅西被连环杀人狂掠走并杀死在深...
评分这本书读得很难,很艰难。 我承认,最初拿起这本书,因为想知道那个悬念。 想知道凶手最终会怎么了,想知道上帝是否会献身。 这已经是21世纪了啊,上帝?上帝是什么东西?怎么会有上帝? 在一个没有信仰也没有畏惧的时代里,这些问题是不是太搞了? 但是读过几章,读过了烤一个...
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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, still trapped in his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. Against his better judgement he arrives at the shack on a wintery afternoon and faces up to his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, 'Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?' The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
So great to read,amazing!!To be sure,it has some healing impact on my life though i know little about GOD,and it's really showed some honourable part of god.P.S.这才是一本治愈系小说吧,看完它很想去读一下[圣经]。
评分So great to read,amazing!!To be sure,it has some healing impact on my life though i know little about GOD,and it's really showed some honourable part of god.P.S.这才是一本治愈系小说吧,看完它很想去读一下[圣经]。
评分So great to read,amazing!!To be sure,it has some healing impact on my life though i know little about GOD,and it's really showed some honourable part of god.P.S.这才是一本治愈系小说吧,看完它很想去读一下[圣经]。
评分这本书真的很不错!!~~ 有人认为它侧重表现上帝爱的一面了,可能有点,但还是很不错很不错!!有个人这样评论,我觉得很贴切~~"like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise"~~~
评分这本书真的很不错!!~~ 有人认为它侧重表现上帝爱的一面了,可能有点,但还是很不错很不错!!有个人这样评论,我觉得很贴切~~"like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise"~~~
The Shack 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书