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The Heart's Invisible Furies 豆瓣
所属 作品: The Heart's Invisible Furies
作者: John Boyne Hogarth 2017 - 8
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?
Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.
In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
2025年4月14日 已读
a page-turner

不过感觉整个故事设置得过于完美过于刻意 以至于显得不太真诚把现实感给拉低 完美的各种巧合 完美的各种ups and downs 骗婚gay子孙满堂跟所有人和乐融融还跟从小分离的亲生母亲相识到相认还有个富豪大作家养母

it feels like all the backgrounds/coincidences/ups and downs or even the whole storyline are too perfectly set, to the extent of losing authenticity and constantly reminding me that this is definitely just a work of fiction, that everything is just a tool to serve the storyline
kindle 爱尔兰
Dubliners 豆瓣
所属 作品: 都柏林人
作者: Joyce, James 2012 - 4
'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves'. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.
2022年3月12日 已读
怎么可以把普通老百姓的日常生活人生百态写得这么好读 优美朴实并存细腻入微 道出了爱尔兰的民族意识和危机 不光是都柏林人的生活 还看到了芸芸众生不为人知的人生 最喜欢《A Little Cloud》和《The Dead》|其中《Ivy Day in the Committee Room》和《Grace》最难读 很多irish-english/slang/culture|想起了前阵子读的《老人与海》搜了一下 原来两位作者是朋友|对比上海译文的译本 搭配网上的英语注释 发现中译有许多错误
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The Picture of Dorian Gray 豆瓣
所属 作品: 道林·格雷的画像
作者: Wilde, Oscar HarperPress 2010 - 4
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young! If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.
2021年10月8日 已读
Harry, you’re horrible! 王尔德写第十一章的时候嗨疯了吧!想起三岛由纪夫和他的《禁色》悠一继承了道林格雷 三岛继承了王尔德 亨利的思想观念即使恶毒也无法不承认它们的精准真实 放在现代依然毫不过时
LGBTQ+ 爱尔兰 王尔德
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 豆瓣
所属 作品: 穿条纹衣服的男孩
作者: John Boyne Definitions 2008
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us ...Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
Love, Rosie 豆瓣
所属 作品: Where Rainbows End
作者: Cecelia Ahern Hyperion 2005
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Now in paperback, the delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just cant seem to get it right Cecelia Ahern has Dunne it again! When Rosie Dunne was published in February, readers from coast to coast devoured this enchanting novel. It became the romantic book of the season -- and the numbers prove it: More than 85,000 copies have been sold to date. While Rosie and Alex are exchanging e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, readers nationwide enjoyed the book, passing it on to friends and recommending it to strangers. Now in paperback, this delightful story will enchant even more readers, proving that "everything is coming up Rosie."
2021年1月25日 已读
其实真的很狗血 但是是好看的
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