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柏青哥 豆瓣 Goodreads
Pachinko
7.8 (50 个评分) 作者: [美]李敏金 译者: 刘勇军 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2019 - 1
历史辜负了我们,但我们无所畏惧!
2017/18年度全球现象级热门图书,韩裔美籍作家李敏金作品,美国国家图书奖决选。
媒体一致看好,汇集等众多热门元素的颠覆性历史小说。 制霸全球各大排行榜,收获诸多奖项和口碑。 苹果公司即将投拍的第一部美剧,41位国际级名人好评推荐。
● 《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《泰晤士报》《人物》年度十大好书
● 英国BBC、美国 CNN、美国NPR、 加拿大CBC年度十大好书
● 美国亚马逊总榜TOP1,英国亚马逊文学榜TOP1,Goodreads评分4.26
柏青哥:大时代小人物命运的轮盘。人生就是一场赌局,从来都没有什么赢家。
从朝鲜到日本,四代移民家庭的恩怨纠葛,大时代的巨光照在每一个小人物的身上,都留下了一道崎岖的阴影,生生的拖着他们的躯体前行。
从1920年日本殖民时期的韩国渔村,到日本大阪,经历了二战和朝鲜战争,一直到90年代末日本泡沫经济时代的横滨和东京乃至纽约。在这样复杂的历史背景下,全书着重描绘了几代人在家族与故乡、融入与归属、金钱与信仰等一系列问题上的关系与矛盾。女主人公作为一个目不识丁的小渔村船主的女儿,在一个她无法理解的时代拼尽全力地试图与家人生存下去。
众多人物和情节,无数特有时代的故事,大时代小人物的命运悲剧,30万字的宏篇史诗。
●这是一部令人难忘的史诗级著作,每个人物的故事看似简单,却蕴含着复杂深刻的内涵。李敏金让我们耐心地观察和倾听形形色色的人物背后隐藏着的无尽的欲望、希望和痛苦。
——《纽约时报》书评
●一本深刻、广博、令人上瘾的作品,讲述了20世纪一个朝鲜家族在日本的浮沉与兴衰。
——(英)大卫·米切尔,《云图》作者
●一位年轻的朝鲜女性未婚先孕,被爱人抛弃,权宜之下,她只好另嫁他人,远去日本开始新生活……《柏青哥》以这样的方式拉开了帷幕……该书对移民在新世界安家立业所付出的牺牲进行了深刻的思考……凭借这部作品,李敏金成为了当代文坛当之无愧的杰出小说家。
——(美)朱诺·迪亚兹,《奥斯卡•瓦奥短暂而奇妙的一生》作者
●这本书适合对韩朝感兴趣的人,也适合对韩朝只有一知半解、只知道现代、三星和泡菜的人。这本无与伦比的作品将同时唤起读者的欢乐和悲伤。我读时爱不释手,希望这本充满辛酸的长篇故事永不完结。
——(英)西蒙·温切斯特,《教授与疯子》作者
2022年5月11日 已读
看电视剧版的烂改烂加,才体会到原著不油腻的优点。“命运文学”不是我的菜,但读进去了至少是流畅的,最后十几页纸透过几个人物说出的话对主题有提升。

“失败者必须爬上珠穆朗玛峰才能脱离地狱......",对照当今中国的新闻来看,书中女主的一生真是幸运。
梅里雪山 豆瓣 Goodreads
梅里雪山 十七人の友を探して
8.4 (29 个评分) 作者: [日]小林尚礼 译者: 乌尼尔 北京联合出版公司 2021 - 5
1991年1月,云南梅里雪山发生了震惊世界的登山事故,中日友好联合登山队十七名队员遭遇雪崩,全部遇难。这是人类登山史上的第二大山难。在一百多年的现代登山史上,梅里雪山也成为人类唯一无法登顶的山峰。事故发生后,中日双方进行了多方搜索。搜索队伍中一位名叫小林尚礼的日本登山队员,更在之后的二十多年里,为了让山难队友们的亡灵回到亲人身边,一再深入梅里雪山搜寻,并已成功找到了十六具遗体。《梅里雪山:寻找十七位友人》,就是小林尚礼多年艰辛搜寻的记录。本书以纪录片式平实而细腻的文字,壮美与温柔兼具的影像,记录了令人心碎的恐怖山难,艰辛的搜寻,梅里雪山的神秘风貌,山脚下人们的朴素生活,三次转山之旅和当地生活的变化。在跨越多年的搜寻中,他从傲慢的外来登山者,逐渐转变成为神山的守护者,一位自然主题的摄影师和作家。而雪山之残酷与神圣,自然对其心灵和生活的荡涤,也同样荡涤每一个热爱雪山、热爱自然的灵魂。
2022年5月6日 已读
睡前一口气读了半本,第二天接着读完。好久没读到这么顺畅的书。
一颗莲子的生命旅程 豆瓣
作者: 陈莹婷 著 / 花青 绘 后浪丨北京联合出版公司 2021 - 4
原创植物科普绘本,以国画绘出莲的生命轮回,
国风情怀自然读本,细品传统荷莲文化。
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 由中国科学院植物研究所科普达人创作,完整展现莲的生命过程
本书由毕业于中国科学院植物研究所、致力于植物科普推广、 社交媒体昵称“咘呱”的科普达人精心创作,从一颗莲子入泥讲起, 讲述它发芽、长叶、花芽长大、开花、结果,成熟的新莲子随水漂走、再次入泥的生长过程,带孩子完整了解莲。
☆ 专业绘者以国画的形式,诗意呈现莲的形态特征和它在四季中的变化细节
绘者多年来致力于学习、研究国画技艺,以国画技法描绘出莲在各生长阶段的特征以及变化,呈现出莲在四季中的不同姿态。
☆ 科普+文化,让孩子在学习莲知识的同时感受中国传统莲文化
既有诸如雌蕊、种子等部位的细节性图解,又有莲的完整描摹图;既有对莲的知识性讲解、莲生长故事的讲述,还有对莲的文化赏析。绘者更以毛笔手写了莲的各部位名称,并且整本书选用有宣纸质感的纸张来印刷,让孩子从翻开书时便浸润在传统莲文化的浓厚氛围中。
☆ 随书附赠莲的大幅海报插页,让人通过荷塘一角来感受自然的魅力。
插页以430*430的大幅海报形式呈现莲,犹如把荷塘一角移到眼前,孩子可以欣赏碧叶红花,观察戏水的鸭子,感受美丽的大自然。
◎ 内容简介
书讲述一颗莲子入泥后的生命之旅——莲子发芽、叶子长出、花芽长大、花儿盛开、果实长出,成熟后的新莲子随水漂走、再次入泥。正文用生动活泼的语言讲述了莲的生长故事,并以小字的形式介绍了莲的知识;以国画的形式描绘出莲在各个生长阶段的姿态特征。正文后附文系统讲述莲文化和莲的科学知识。
2022年5月2日 已读
画得美,有知识点,给家人科普用很妙。
Ten Steps To Nanette 豆瓣
9.3 (6 个评分) 作者: Hannah Gadsby Allen & Unwin 2022 - 3
The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where it went on to achieve critical acclaim.
2022年4月14日 已读
读过这本书,更加了解她。
Career and Family 豆瓣
作者: Claudia Goldin Princeton University Press 2021 - 10
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.
Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formed—and the barriers they faced—in terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are “greedy,” paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered women’s advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic’s silver lining.
Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.
2022年3月16日 已读
2.5吧,有功有过。功就先不写了,暂时没心情。硬伤在于此书目标读者是老、白、精英,视野很狭窄(感觉这是作者的一个选择)。论述来说,观点强、证据弱,匹配度低因此缺乏信服度。另外车轱辘话太多,真是要在沙子里淘金才能把作者的关键点挑出来。
中国食辣史 豆瓣
7.4 (39 个评分) 作者: 曹雨 低音·北京联合出版公司 2019 - 6
★★★
学术顾问:叶嘉莹、楼宇烈、薛永年、龚鹏程、刘跃进、蒋寅、杨念群;
陈丹青先生亲笔题写丛书名;
红点奖设计师顾瀚允亲自操刀,诠释大气装帧。
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◎ 编辑推荐
★ 本书展现辣椒在中国四百年作为食物的演变,内容通俗易懂,深入浅出,既是学术研究之成果,也是面向一般大众的科普读物。
★ 装帧设计精美,并采用了封面压凹、烫金工艺。封面由陈丹青先生亲笔题字,具备相当的艺术价值与收藏价值。
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◎ 内容简介
本书考查了中国食用辣椒四百年来的历史。主要依据三条理论线索来探讨辣椒在中国饮食中的诸多问题:第一条是辣椒传播的历史路径和食用辣椒的原因,这条线索的分析主要在文化唯物论的语境下;第二条线索是辣椒在中国文化中的隐喻,这条线索的分析主要在结构主义的语境下;第三条线索是辣椒在中国饮食中的阶级地位变迁,这条线索的分析主要是在饮食的政治经济学的解释语境下。
2022年2月21日 已读
有一些有趣的史料和分析。
日本料理神髓 豆瓣
8.2 (8 个评分) 作者: [日] 小山裕久 译者: 赵韵毅 世纪文景/上海人民出版社 2017 - 1
分辨每一条鲣鱼、每一锅高汤的不同滋味,修炼可以锁住食材切口水分的刀工,烤出外皮酥脆、肉质软嫩鲜甜的香鱼,寻找能够带出食材原味的微妙酸度,表达白饭的乐趣,等待柿子最美味的时刻来临,让菜单成为令人喜悦的安排…日本料理的神髓究竟是什么?以日本美食征服世界味蕾,坐拥东京米其林指南“一门天下”盛誉的传奇料理人小山裕久,用他从业三十年的经验和热情娓娓讲述——美味的顶点只在一瞬间,而料理人的毕生追求,就是让这个瞬间在客人的口中绽放。
2022年2月8日 已读
Weather in the City 豆瓣
作者: Sanda Lenzholer nai010 publishers 2015 - 8
There is plenty of urban architecture whose design fails to take the urban climate properly into account: a beautifully laid-out square where you are nearly blown off your feet, or a modern city apartment that is too hot to sleep in during the summer. Weather in the City explains and illustrates how smart urban design can enhance comfort in the city. The way we experience the urban climate depends on physical and psychological factors dictated by our surroundings. How can spatial planning and urban design influence our experience of the weather? With practical case studies richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, Weather in the City is both a reference work and a source of inspiration for all those working to enhance the quality of city life--from commissioners and policymakers to students in urban design, landscape architecture and planning.
2022年2月7日 已读
3.5,generic。适合对urban design and microclimate这个话题建立初步了解。
小家,越住越大2 豆瓣 Goodreads
小家,越住越大2
8.3 (42 个评分) 作者: 逯薇 中信出版集团股份有限公司 2018 - 4
《小家,越住越大》荣获2016年度 “大众喜爱的50种图书”,2016年上市以来,畅销40万册,更不可思议的是,它的版权输出至英国、瑞典、西班牙、罗马尼亚、韩国、泰国、俄罗斯等多个国家和地区!
《小家,越住越大2》延续前一本的可爱画风,继续用直观的、有趣的、易懂的方式帮助解决中国式居住难题。作者深入千家万户走访观察,潜心研究居住痛点。历经2年磨砺,完成了《小家,越住越大2》的创作。内容重点是“家的功能痛点”。主要内容包括中国中小户型的出租屋改造、餐厅功能、卫浴功能、儿童房功能、定制家具、灯光搭配等解决方案。
同时,书中还有大量的 “避坑”宝典、常见误区解读以及操作指南,干货十足!
看完《小家,越住越大》的你,一定不能错过第二本。“小家1”侧重讲收纳,“小家2”的主题则是功能,二者缺一不可,共同构筑了逯薇老师的居住冰山模型的最底层部分。有了第一本的知识基础,第二本中的方法和理念实践起来会格外游刃有余。无论是对居住束手无策的“小白”还是专业的行业从业者,都能从这本书中受益!
2022年1月8日 已读
小家,越住越大 豆瓣
7.8 (100 个评分) 作者: 逯薇 中信出版集团 2016 - 5
房价高、面积小、东西多、收纳少;节奏快、压力大、时间紧、想法杂……这些是都市人生活普遍面临的问题。但是,即使只有有限的空间,也希望住得舒适、快乐, 纵然蜗居在不大的房子,也有一颗追求高品质生活的心。
前万科副总建筑师逯薇,初次公开居住秘密,300余幅手绘,一目了然,轻松教你学会居住
逯薇认为,居住并非与生俱来的本能,而是需要学习和掌握的技能 。本书的重点是“家的收纳痛点”。匹配中国中小户型特点,逯薇针对玄关收纳、客厅收纳、厨房橱柜、洗面柜、衣帽间收纳等问题,逐一提出解决方案。其中“逯薇式客厅大柜”、“厨房一金二银三区”、“高低台面”等先进设计理念,广受读者的追捧和模仿,并深入影响龙头家居企业。在这本精美的绘本中,她将自己的居住哲学一笔笔画出,加上幽默风趣的文字,让读者一目了然,可以轻松愉快的方式快速掌握家居设计、整理收纳、购置家私等问题的诀窍和要领。三百多页的绘本,处处透着作者对打造更美好的居住环境的坚定态度。她毫无保留地将居住理念的精华部分放在这本书中,更有无数的居住“干货”,带给你超值的居住技巧,让你的“住商”在短时间内快速得到提升。是一本提升生活品质不可错过的好书。房子不必大,住好才是家。翻开这本书,从打造一个整洁温暖的家开始新的旅程!
2022年1月8日 已读
米,面,鱼 豆瓣
7.8 (20 个评分) 作者: [美]马特·古尔丁 译者: 谢孟宗 广西师范大学出版社 2019 - 11
日本是全世界食客心中的一大圣地。米其林餐厅数量居世界之首,但求匠心独运的无名小店更是数不胜数。
饮食作家马特·古尔丁走访东京、大阪、京都、福冈、广岛、北海道、能登七座日本饮食重镇,品尝每个城市的代表性食物,走访热爱并传承当地饮食文化的各色人物,将城市的历史文化也融入自己的饮食观察中。
从专业冷静的料理职人、热情如火的街头小贩,到努力在此扎根的外来移民,再到依赖美味的新老食客,正是这些千姿百态的普通民众,展现并维系着日本独特的美食风情!
2022年1月7日 已读
豆瓣
8.8 (8 个评分) 作者: 上条辽太郎 / 苏娅 北京联合出版公司 2018 - 8
六是一位住在大理的日本人、自然农法的传承者、自然教育的实践者、自由音乐人、80后旅者。他不愿过朝九晚五、消费至上的都市生活,渴望亲近自然和传统,于是周游列国,后来到大理生活了七年,以自然农法耕种、酿造,和朋友们一起做音乐、吹迪吉杜里管,亲自为三个孩子接生,以顺其自然的生活方式成为大理新生活的地标。
七年前,苏娅和六结识。两年前,她开始跟六一同种稻、灌溉、除草、收稻、酿酒、做味噌,像个真正的农民那样劳作,感同身受地写下六一家平凡、美好、自足的生活。
《六》是两个人共同创造的一本奇迹之书,六活出了生活,苏娅写出了生活。
2021年12月28日 已读
Are You My Mother? 豆瓣
9.1 (7 个评分) 作者: Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin 2012 - 5
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven.

Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother — to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
2021年12月19日 已读
The Secret to Superhuman Strength 豆瓣
作者: Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Eastern philosophers and literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author’s own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others.
A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.
2021年11月29日 已读
故事对于喜欢运动的人应该会更有共鸣。类似于fun home的手法,文学人物故事和自己故事平行叙述。但这一次我觉得文学人物故事并没有那么高度地衬托自己故事的情感,有时我干脆跳过文学人物直接去读她本人的故事。时间跨度从0岁到50多岁,于我个人而言她20岁之后的故事我更好奇,但读下来有一种晃晃就过了的感觉。到了40和50岁的章节,能感到她的更多心力。作者现在50多岁,这大概是记忆的规律。总的来说是一本完成度很高的书,可读性很高,关于运动的画面感很强,文学和文化的reference里超验主义、Jack Kerouac、大山、禅宗最令人印象深刻,但我觉得还可以更深入。
Fun Home 豆瓣
作者: Alison Bechdel Jonathan Cape 2006 - 9
One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, "Fun Home" is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis", it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home', as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
2021年11月18日 已读
Nomadland 豆瓣
8.3 (6 个评分) 作者: Jessica Bruder W. W. Norton & Company 2017 - 9
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.
2021年8月16日 已读
八万四千问 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.6 (25 个评分) 作者: [不丹] 宗萨蒋扬钦哲仁波切 译者: 严望佳 / 戚淑萍 深圳报业集团出版社 2016 - 7
【内容简介】
宗萨蒋扬钦哲仁波切四年来首部作品。“佛法能够解决你们的所有问题。”
宗萨仁波切在《八万四千问》前言中写道:“当我和中国朋友们吃饭或喝咖啡时,他们并没有把我当成预测彩票中奖号码的算命先生,而是以其探究未知事物的愿望,引燃了很多场对话的火花。”
书中所论,都是大家所关心的话题,同时也可能是一个热心寻求智慧的中国人最常遇到疑惑的地方。包括如何认识佛教、因果与轮回、佛法与日常生活、烦恼、爱情、关系、婚姻、我执、上师、活佛、传承、佛教与现代教育、佛教与艺术、佛教与社会等。宗萨仁波切以超凡的智慧和幽默的语言为舟楫,帮助大家在这个物质主义空前强大的世界里弄明白自己是谁,从哪里来,要去往哪里。
这本小书,将为人们解答所有问题。
2021年4月12日 已读
3.5。书里的一些段落读了是有启发的。说,要能欣赏而享受一件事情,却不想占有它。不落入人们的游戏,却也不让他人烦恼,投入但不沉迷;还说,"从愚昧状态开始,你需要变得聪明起来,而最终也得摆脱聪明本身。"我的感想:爱好和享受常常在发展之后变成沉迷;然而陷入沉迷后立刻阻碍了爱和享受的通道。要爱但不沉迷。
Yayoi Kusama 豆瓣
作者: Yayoi Kusama / Akira Shibutami Thames and Hudson 2019 - 10
Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama’s matchless creativity and originality have been captivating the world since she moved from Matsumoto, her hometown in Nagano, Japan, to the USA in 1958. In the last ten years alone, her retrospective exhibitions in four major European and American museums, including Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, have seen record attendance.
Kusama has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. This comprehensive publication, originally published to accompany a sell-out exhibition at Matsumoto City Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive overview of Kusama’s entire career, including works from her youth, when she indulged in drawing in order to escape from her hallucinations; paintings made when she was based in New York, including ‘Infinity Nets’ and ‘Polka Dots’; works from the 1980s and 1990s, when she participated in the Venice Biennale; and last but not least, the ongoing large-scale series ‘My Eternal Soul’. The plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions.
2021年4月4日 已读
Textiles of the Islamic World 豆瓣
作者: Gillow, John 2010 - 10
This volume offers a sumptuously illustrated, region-by-region survey of textiles made, worn, used and displayed in the Islamic world. The text includes details of dozens of textile techniques, such as loom types, materials, forms of decoration and local specialities, paired with specially taken colour images of textiles on display, photographs of weavers and dyers in action, and rare historical material.
2021年3月5日 已读
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The Glass Castle 豆瓣
9.1 (7 个评分) 作者: Jeannette Walls Scribner 2005 - 3
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
2021年1月17日 已读
当小说读,主人公的父母比小说人物还要精彩。