小说
Tales From Outer Suburbia 豆瓣
9.7 (6 个评分) 作者: [澳大利亚] 陈志勇 Arthur A. Levine Books 2009 - 2
An exchange student who's really an alien, a secret room that becomes the perfect place for a quick escape, a typical tale of grandfatherly exaggeration that is actually even more bizarre than he says... These are the odd details of everyday life that grow and take on an incredible life of their own in tales and illustrations that Shaun Tan's many fans will love.
2014年11月8日 已读
更像带插图的短篇小说集。惊喜的发现"Eric"也收录在内。非常喜欢那个关于被遗忘的诗句的故事。
小说 绘本 英文
The Left Hand of Darkness 豆瓣
作者: Ursula K. Le Guin Ace Trade 2000 - 7
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
2014年12月4日 已读
很喜欢,刚看完,还需要仔细回味,有机会需要再看一遍.
小说 科幻 英文
The Bone Clocks Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: David Mitchell Random House 2014 - 9
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit—it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”
2015年2月17日 已读
看完了,很喜欢。除了中间关于crispin那个作家的实在太话痨,要是篇幅减半或者减2/3就完美了。觉得比云图还好。//看了zeze的推荐开始看的,刚看了个开头 (4%),很好看!比云图的第一个故事好看多了。希望满满。。。
2015年2月21日 评论 末药是我的,它的苦涩香气 - 和《云图》一样,这本大书也是包含着六个小故事。看来David Mitchell很喜欢六这个数字。云图的六个故事之间的联系是一环套一环。而骨钟这里六个故事其实都是围绕着一个主角,Holly Sykes. 也因此骨钟读起来更加紧凑丰满些。云图的布局更精巧。 1。 A Hot Spell: 1984 (酷暑) 自述者:Holly Sykes, 十五岁。六月三十到七月二号三天。地点是南伦敦Kent。 生长在南伦敦一个比较贫民的镇上的Holly Sykes 十五岁这个夏天因为第一个男友和妈妈大吵一架离家出走后发生的一系列事件,介绍了不少本书中的主要角色和线索。Holly在七岁以前可以听到别人的想法,甚至能预知一些事情。她出走的三天里也遇到了很多魔幻的事情。 2。Myrrh Is Mine, Its Bitter Perfume: 1991 ( 末药是我的,它的苦涩香气)1 自述者: Hugo Lamb, 25。圣诞节到新年这几天的故事(选了其中七天),从剑桥到瑞士阿尔卑斯山一个滑雪小镇。 Hugo Lamb 来自中产阶级家庭,在剑桥读政治。在阿尔卑斯山的滑雪小镇上偶遇Holly. 他住在富家弟子朋友的豪宅,陪富家公子哥玩。她,在镇上酒吧做女侍。他们相遇相爱,在一起的时间却非常短暂,只是一个大雪封山的夜晚,她收留了走投无路的他。然后便分道扬镳。 3.The Wedding Bash: 2004 (婚礼) 自述者:Ed Brubeck, 30, 在第一个故事里救助过Holly的朋友,现在变成了战地记者,而且是Holly的partner, 两人育有一个八岁的女儿Aoife. 地点在伦敦。 Holly 妹妹的婚礼两天,Ed 一边讲述婚礼前后发生的各种故事一边插播来参加婚礼前在伊拉克的战地记者生涯故事。 4。Crispin Hershey’s Lonely Planet: 2015 (Crispin Hershey的孤独星球) 自述者:Crispin Hershey, 中年作家, 这个章节时间跨度最长,从2015一直到2020,选了其中的十天来讲。从伦敦到上海到澳大利亚小镇Perth到冰岛到纽约上州。 Crispin Hershey 这个名字第一次出现在第二个故事里。 Hugo的大学朋友Richard Cheeseman毕业前接到的第一个书评约稿就是去评论Crispin Hershey的小说Desiccated Embryos. 当时的Cheeseman膜拜Hershey还因为这本书在酒吧和路人打了一架。结果在这个第四个故事里,Hersey和Cheeseman成了不共戴天的仇人,起因不过是Cheeseman把Hershey好不容易写出来的新小说批了个体无完肤。 Holly出现在Hershey的世界是因为她把自己小时候的故事也写了一本书而且热卖,比Hershey要红的多。两人偶遇多了就变成了朋友。每当Holly出现都变成故事的亮点,苍白无趣的地平线上突然有了活力。也许Hershey的星球真的太孤单了吧。 这一章简直罗嗦的让我难以忍受。要不是Holly时不时会出来露一面和Hershey交集越来越多,我完全看不下去。最后结尾时我大松一口气。总算是完了。阿弥陀佛。 5。An Horologist’s Labyrinth: 2025 (时间守护者的迷宫) 自述者:Iris Fenby医生,虽然她今生的背景是来自多伦多。其实她的真名是Marinus, 公元后640生人。他的第一个生命是San Marino小国里一个养鹰者的儿子。地点是纽约。 Marinus也是第一个故事里就出现的人物,那时他是七岁的Holly的心理医生,封住了她可以洞察世事的第三只眼,也因此从“隐者帮”手下把她救下来。 这一节是地地道道的魔幻小说,可以当武侠来看。我很喜欢里面穿插讲的Marinus投生成一个俄国农庄主的佃农的女儿的故事。讲她如何想方设法把自己从那个悲惨的命运解放出来,终于到了圣彼得堡。 6。Sheep’s Head: 2043 (羊头镇) 自述者:Holly Skyes, 十月底的三天。地点是爱尔兰小镇Sheep’s Head (羊头) 羊头镇的小木屋是Holly的姨婆Eilish的。第二个故事里提到的Hugo在Holly的瑞士滑雪小镇上的公寓床头挂的就是她画的这座海边小木屋。David Mitchell 认为世界最终会回归到黑世纪, 当石油和电都没有了的时候,我们日益依赖的网络和生活方式都不再存在。所以这一节讲的就是世界回归到黑世纪后的样子。这个时候的Holly已经是奶奶了。 刚看完我以为最喜欢第二和第五个故事。回头重看了一些章节才发现,不对,我最喜欢的是第一和第五。也就是所有关于时间守护者的魔幻故事和他们的世界。太有趣了。想象一下,如果可以一世一世活下去,不同的国家语言地理位置阶级环境性别身份,不停的在学新的东西,拥有洞察别人心事的魔力,可以在记忆里穿行宛如看电影。可以看尽人世悲欢离合,世事浮沉。想想都是很奢华的事情。希望David Mitchell能专心为每一个时间守卫者写传记。一定好看! 有几个疑问,不知道是不是David Mitchell 魔幻世界里的逻辑漏洞。 1。时间守护者,比方Xi Lo 在“死去”孩子的身体里重生这个过程有点讲不通。“死”难道不是肉体的?如果肉体不死,灵魂怎么个“死”法?也就是说如果五岁的Jack死去了,那难道不是他的肉体死去,所以灵魂不得不离开?如果肉体已死,Xi Lo的灵魂怎么让他的肉体复活?如果肉体能够复活,那么Jack原来的灵魂就不必离开不是么? 2。大战前夕,时间守护者们说“隐者帮”有上百人,但是他们要去决一死战的这个“盲卡特里”(Blind Cathar)这一派仅有十二个隐者。也就是说就算打败了这一派,还有上百个隐者,不知道他们什么时候会再组成帮派干同样的事。所以这么全力以赴貌似不太合逻辑。另外其他隐者应该也有他们自己的收魂地点和方式,所以书里提到的独立隐者是怎么运作的?全书结尾,Marinus和Holly说所有的隐者都不存在了,貌似不对。应该还是个大隐患才对。 3。Oscar Gomez 被Hugo Lamb吸了魂变成黑酒给隐者们分了么?不是说只吸小孩子?如果不是为了吸魂,Hugo Lamb为什么要杀Oscar呢? 1 源自圣诞歌 ”We Three Kings” http://www.englisher.net/lyrics/lyric/we-three-kings-11/
小说 英文
Ghostwritten 豆瓣
作者: David Mitchell Random House 2000 - 5
2015年4月9日 已读
原来从第一本书就是云图的路子,但是技巧和结构明显不如云图,骨钟成熟。可以看到后来运用娴熟的设定人物的最初雏形。云图里的Tim Cavendish 和Luisa Rey在这里也露了面。有趣。
小说 英文
状元媒 豆瓣
8.3 (15 个评分) 作者: 叶广芩 北京十月文艺出版社 2012 - 4
《状元媒》著名作家叶广芩的最新长篇小说,是作者家族系列作品最精彩最具代表性之作,讲述了清朝最后一位状元刘春霖做媒,促成了皇室后裔父亲金瑞祓与平民母亲陈美珍的婚姻,由此而引发了金家大宅门里的家庭成员和亲戚朋友的故事。以小格格“我”的视角为轴线,冠以十一部京剧戏名而写成。 从辛亥革命开始到改革开放的今天,跳跃性地写了背景百年的人物众生相,北京百姓的价值观念,北京社会的风土人情。对于北京的过去和现在,这类话题人们似乎总是说也说不完……那些个细节,那些个欢乐,那些个拾掇不起来的零碎,如同一瓶陈放多年的佳酿,夜静时慢慢品来悠远绵长,回味无穷。作者动用了她最独特、最难忘、最熟悉的生活素材,构思精巧、精心创作而成。叶广芩对传统文化的直接体验与研习和对世事交变的经历与敏锐感知,促成自身修养所具有的学识与胸襟,加之现实主义浪漫的艺术风格,都赋予了这部作品非比寻常的文字魅力。这部作品可以说是作家家族系列小说的登顶之作。
2016年1月27日 已读
在听小说连续广播,老北京各种日常细节,好听
中文 北京 小说
采桑子 豆瓣
8.3 (23 个评分) 作者: 叶广芩 北京出版社 2009 - 1
《采桑子》是一部讲述民国以来满族贵胄后裔生活的长篇小说,是一幅描摹人物命运、充满文化意蕴的斑斓画卷,是一曲直面沧桑、感喟人生的无尽挽歌。清已降,大宅门儿里的满人四散,金家十四个兄妹及亲友各奔西东:长子反叛皇族当了军统,长女为票戏而痴迷;次子因萧墙之祸自尽,次女追求自由婚姻被逐家门……  一个世家的衰落,一群子弟的遭际,形象地展现了近百年间中国历史的风云、社会生活的变造与传统文化的嬗变,令人思绪绵绵。
“采桑子”本为词牌,此书名借用之。满族著名词人纳兰性德所著《采桑子.谁翻乐府凄凉曲》,曾被梁启超先生赞为“时代哀音”,称其“眼界大而感慨深”,此书亦然。写没落而不颓放,叹沧桑终能释怀,娓娓道来,不瘟不躁,实有大家遗风。其“京味”,较之一般“京味小说”更为浓郁、醇厚,是从生活深层涌流出来的上层老北京的情趣与意蕴,具有独特的艺术魅力。
2015年5月9日 已读
好看!选的故事比状元媒更富有戏剧性,跌宕起伏。但是个人更喜欢状元媒,因为里面的小人物和老北京的生活日常的细节描写更细腻丰富。
中文 北京 历史 小说 文化
庆熹纪事 豆瓣
8.7 (14 个评分) 作者: 红猪侠 中信出版社 2006 - 6
名列当今中国网络小说十五强、网络武侠排名第二江南做序,诛砂插图。
属于依托于历史但是架空在历史之外,更纯粹、更彻底、更真实、更细腻,秋水一样的人物,在萧瑟的皇庭中演绎的江湖故事。逼真的历史感、浓郁的宫院气、辗转的倾思纷争、凄冷的落日京城,那个原先叫颜久,后来更名辟 邪的少年,只露一回青衫的背影,就使人终生难忘。
《今古传奇·武侠版》、《今古传奇·奇幻版》、《幻王》杂志联袂推荐,新浪读书频道、九界文学网站、龙的天空文学网站,推荐阅读。
身为深宫中一介贱役的辟邪,却似乎有着辅佐皇帝撤回藩地、驱逐匈奴、平定天下的志愿和才华。隐藏在他背后的家庭仇恨,更令分他的行为琢磨不定。宫廷内外,大江南北,与藩王、父亲旧部周旋,上下纵横令他声名鹊起,实权渐握,不久就有青袍总管之称。渐渐聚集在他周围的,更是各类青年才俊。一切繁华说不尽的得意之际,他却依旧寂寞清冷,只有寒州相识的明珠令他心头温暖,只有离水中杀出的雷奇峰令他势血沸腾。
终于匈奴来犯,各路藩王各怀鬼胎,企图从中原与匈奴的战果中分得一杯羹,中原前途叵测。就在执钺的亲王与大将军之后,皇帝也即将亲征北疆。
然而在大军即将开拔的那一刻,依旧有无数的谜团将交织在未来的刀光血影中。藩王们甚至皇帝的亲兄弟成亲王无不蠢蠢欲动,而抚养辟邪长大的七宝、乃至辟邪本人,他们的目的还远远深藏在冰峰之下……
康熙大帝:夺宫 豆瓣
作者: 二月河 1999 - 4
《康熙大帝》是一部系列长篇小说。它的第一卷《夺宫》着重描写康熙八岁即位后,在极其险恶的政治环境里,与辅政大臣鳌拜集团的篡位阴谋作斗争的故事。经过多次较量,他终于在十五岁时,智擒了鳌拜,巩固了帝王权力,为清王朝的振兴打下了良好的政治基础。
清康熙皇帝爱新觉罗·玄烨,以他聪慧的才智和政治品格,一生为国家民族创建了从衰败到鼎盛的伟业,是中国历代帝王中文韬武略最突出的一位君王被誉为“千古一帝”。《康熙大帝》,共分“夺宫”、“惊风密雨”、“玉宇成祥”、“乱起萧墙”四册,讲述了康熙大帝的丰功伟绩。他一生中除鳌拜、平三蕃、视察黄河、北定疆界、与蒙古诸王结盟、西徵葛而丹,汲取汉文化,发展民族经济,推行富国强民的政策措施,完成统一中华、振兴中华的大业。
The Martian 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Martian
9.3 (42 个评分) 作者: Andy Weir / [美] 安迪·威尔 Crown 2014 - 2
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
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“Brilliant…a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years…Utterly compelling.”--Wall Street Journal
“Terrific stuff, a crackling good read that devotees of space travel will devour like candy…succeeds on several levels and for a variety of reasons, not least of which is its surprising plausibility.”—USA Today
“An impressively geeky debut…the technical details keep the story relentlessly precise and the suspense ramped up. And really, how can anyone not root for a regular dude to prove the U-S-A still has the Right Stuff?”--Entertainment Weekly
“Gripping…[features] a hero who can solve almost every problem while still being hilarious. It’s hard not to be swept up in [Weir’s] vision and root for every one of these characters. Grade: A.”—AVClub.com
“Andy Weir delivers with The Martian...a story for readers who enjoy thrillers, science fiction, non-fiction, or flat-out adventure [and] an authentic portrayal of the future of space travel.”--Associated Press
"A gripping tale of survival in space [that] harkens back to the early days of science fiction by masters such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke."--San Jose Mercury News
“One of the best thrillers I’ve read in a long time. It feels so real it could almost be nonfiction, and yet it has the narrative drive and power of a rocket launch. This is Apollo 13 times ten.”
--Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Impact and Blasphemy
“A book I just couldn’t put down! It has the very rare combination of a good, original story, interestingly real characters and fascinating technical accuracy…reads like “MacGyver” meets “Mysterious Island.”
--Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Commander of the International Space Station and author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
"The best book I've read in ages. Clear your schedule before you crack the seal. This story will take your breath away faster than a hull breech. Smart, funny, and white-knuckle intense, The Martian is everything you want from a novel."
--Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool
“The Martian kicked my ass! Weir has crafted a relentlessly entertaining and inventive survival thriller, a MacGyver-trapped-on-Mars tale that feels just as real and harrowing as the true story of Apollo 13.”
—Ernest Cline, New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One
“Gripping…shapes up like Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as written by someone brighter.”
--Larry Niven, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series and Lucifer’s Hammer
“Humankind is only as strong as the challenges it faces, and The Martian pits human ingenuity (laced with more humor than you’d expect) against the greatest endeavor of our time — survival on Mars. A great read with an inspiring attention to technical detail and surprising emotional depth. Loved it!"
--Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse
“The tension simply never lets up, from the first page to the last, and at no point does the believability falter for even a second. You can't shake the feeling that this could all really happen.”
—Patrick Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Breach and Ghost Country
"Strong, resilent, and gutsy. It's Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 21st century style. Set aside a chunk of free time when you start this one. You're going to need it because you won't want to put it down."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The King’s Deception and The Columbus Affair
“An excellent first novel…Weir laces the technical details with enough keen wit to satisfy hard science fiction fan and general reader alike [and] keeps the story escalating to a riveting conclusion.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred)
"Riveting...a tightly constructed and completely believable story of a man's ingenuity and strength in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds."--Booklist
“Sharp, funny and thrilling, with just the right amount of geekery…Weir displays a virtuosic ability to write about highly technical situations without leaving readers far behind. The result is a story that is as plausible as it is compelling.”—Kirkus
"Weir combines the heart-stopping with the humorous in this brilliant debut novel...by placing a nail-biting life-and-death situation on Mars and adding a snarky and wise-cracking nerdy hero, Weir has created the perfect mix of action and space adventure."--Library Journal (starred)
“A perfect novel in almost every way, The Martian may already have my vote for best book of 2014.”—Crimespree Magazine
“A page-turning thriller…this survival tale with a high-tech twist will pull you right in.”—Suspense Magazine
From the Hardcover edition.
2018年10月1日 已读
英文的网文红人。A very fun little book!
小说 英文
太子妃升职记 豆瓣
6.8 (12 个评分) 作者: 鲜橙 万卷出版公司 2012 - 4
为了弥补工作失误,司命星君将现代男人陈然的灵魂偷偷从地府带出,附身到“落水身亡”的南夏太子妃张芃芃身上。这天上掉下来的是馅饼还是陷阱?丈夫不喜,婆婆不爱,男人心女人身的张芃芃如何才能从“太子妃”一路顺利地升职为“太后”?这是一个“女人”在后宫的奋斗史…… 同时,也是一个“男人”在后宫的苦难史…… 谁人不知这太子妃乃是天下最不好做的行当:第一:升职前景不好,这太子妃、皇后、太后一步步升上去,简直是难于上青天啊!你见过有几个太子妃能一直熬到太后的?第二:劳动没有保障,且不说没有三险一金,还随时可能被辞退,而且还不允许你再就业!第三:工作性质危险,随时都有死亡的可能,若是太子称不了帝吧,你得跟着一起倒霉,太子称了帝吧,你更得自己小心了!
此岸 豆瓣
7.8 (17 个评分) 作者: 马曳 中信出版社 2016 - 4
踏上美国国土的时候,王微想,美国总是被称为大洋彼岸,现在她是在大洋此岸了。
中文系毕业的王微一举考入哈佛法学院,这真是转运汉巧遇洞庭红一样的开头。然而这世界毕竟是公平的,命运给王微打开一扇通往光明前途的门,便也顺手结束了她少年时的恋情。
多年以后王微回想起她和陈正浩的分分合合,确如萧世伯所说:既不单纯,也不勇敢。
从波士顿到纽约,再从律所到投行,王微慢慢从初来乍到的国际学生成长为纽约中城众多金融才俊里的一员。她在此岸收获了事业,友情和相濡以沫的伴侣,一切看起来都很美。只是当经济下行的周期到来,每个人都不得不重新审视自己生活的方向。王微发现,历史仿佛又在重演……
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编辑推荐:
☆《此岸》是一部未出先火的长篇小说。小说仅凭最初几个章节,便在精英人群高度集中关注的公众号“奴隶社会”一炮而红,成为周末黄金档热门,数万读者每周疯狂追看。
☆《此岸》取材于作者在哈佛法学院求学和中美两地工作的见闻,记录了中美金融圈的生活,以及身为留学生的情感经历。小说在细节上见微知著,情感细腻丰富,让每一个曾经有过海外生活经历,或是曾经面临过与主人公类似的职业与感情冲突的读者,都能产生深深的共鸣。
☆30万字的篇幅,通过讲述主人公王微从北京高中生到美国投行精英的人生经历,她的朋友们各自不同的人生选择,全景呈现大时代背景下一代年轻人的成长,他们的迷惘和困惑,以及对个人价值的追问和寻求。
☆美国律师的职业身份赋予作者犀利又不乏细腻的语言风格。叙事干脆,直击要害,却又总能在寥寥数语中,让人读出起承转合、风清云淡的慈悲心肠。
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人生中的每一次选择,都是一种渡,有人越过小溪,有人越过海洋。
2016年5月11日 已读
还不错,留学爱情故事是主线,反倒是作为背景的法学院,投行,律所和法院的职场细节很吸引人。
中文 小说
A Legacy 豆瓣
作者: Sybille Bedford Penguin Classics 1999 - 10
2016年9月5日 已读
看完了,很喜欢。开头有点晦涩,细节又微妙,可以理解不会是所有人都喜欢的调调。对话精炼让我想起海明威(那几本写的好的小说)。书里的人物有点光怪陆离的让人震惊。现实确实是比艺术更离奇啊!文笔很有英国的冷幽默。在犹豫要不要去看Jigsaw...
小说 英文
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: David Mitchell Random House 2010 - 6
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.

But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?”

A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.
Carol 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Price of Salt
8.8 (8 个评分) 作者: Patricia Highsmith W. W. Norton & Company 2015 - 11
"A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." ―Entertainment Weekly
Now a major motion picture.
Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.
Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, Carol tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany―the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. They fall in love and set out across the United States, ensnared by society's confines and the imminent disapproval of others, yet propelled by their infatuation. Carol is a brilliantly written story that may surprise Highsmith fans and will delight those discovering her work.
This authorized edition includes an afterword by Patricia Highsmith. Previously titled The Price of Salt.
The Handmaid's Tale 豆瓣
8.1 (32 个评分) 作者: Margaret Atwood Anchor 1998 - 3
From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.
Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now….
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force.
2017年6月2日 已读
重读感觉没有了年轻时读的惊艳。虽然理解为什么那时候的自己这么喜欢。Cat's Eye还是更好的一本书。//大学时深爱的一本书。当时读过不止一遍。好像是我读的第一本Atwood?昨晚拿起来重读。。。
女性 小说 英文
Warlight 豆瓣
作者: Michael Ondaatje Knopf Publishing Group 2018 - 5
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.
2018年10月8日 已读
一口气看完了。喜欢!保留了英国病人的诗一样的语言和精美的记忆片段拼接图一样的讲述方法,但是故事比英国病人要紧凑易读。fascinating to see his characters in the city...
ondaatje 小说 英文
小团圆 豆瓣
7.9 (158 个评分) 作者: 张爱玲 北京十月文艺出版社 2009 - 4
这是一个热情故事,我想表达出爱情的万转千回,完全幻灭了之后也还有点什么东西在。——张爱玲
《小团圆》以一贯嘲讽的细腻工笔,刻画出张爱玲最深知的人生素材,在她历史中过往来去的那些辛酸往事现实人物,于此处实现了历史的团圆。那余韵不尽的情感铺陈已臻炉火纯青之境,读来时时有被针扎人心的滋味,故事中男男女女的矛盾挣扎和颠倒迷乱,正映现了我们心底深处诸般复杂的情结。
2018年11月24日 已读
非常喜欢。一直不喜欢张爱玲的小说。这本不同。非常喜欢。喜欢她如此纯粹拎得清爽。坚强聪慧而且慈悲。跟她别的小说里面的主角非常不一样。
中文 小说