Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
乔纳森•萨福兰•弗尔(Jonathan Safran Foer),1977年出生于华盛顿,在普林斯顿大学求学期间师承乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨,学习写作,获得高级创意写作论文奖。他的短篇小说曾在《巴黎评论》和《纽约客》上发表,2000年获得西洋镜小说奖。
毕业之后,弗尔前往乌克兰旅行,随后完成首部长篇小说《了了》(Everything Is Illuminated),该书为他赢得全美犹太人图书奖和《卫报》首作奖。2005年,《了了》被导演列维•施瑞博尔搬上银幕。同年,《特别响,非常近》出版,为他带来更大的荣誉和更广泛的认知度,并被《朗读者》导演斯蒂芬•戴德利看中,改编成电影。2009年,弗尔出版了非虚构作品《吃动物》(Eating Animals),探讨素食主义。
2007年,弗尔入选《格兰塔》杂志“美国最优秀青年作家”,2010年,入选《纽约客》“四十岁以下二十位最佳作家”。
目前,弗尔担任纽约大学创意写作课程教授,与同是小说家的妻子妮可•克劳斯住在布鲁克林。
书评原作者:JOHN UPDIKE 译自《纽约客》 乔纳森·萨佛兰·福尔,生于1977年,2002年出版了令人惊讶的、滑稽的、温柔的、有着杂乱而奢华情节的小说《一切皆被照亮》(Everything Is Illuminated) 后成名。从乌克兰导游亚历山大·佩乔夫一口极有趣的、辞不达意的英文,到对一个...
评分这本精彩的小说从第一页就吸引了我:“要不发明一种茶壶?茶壶嘴在冒热气的时候能够张开,合上,所以它能变成一张嘴,然后它能吹出好听的调调,或者演出莎士比亚,或者只是和我一起哈哈大笑。我可以发明一个能够用爸爸的声音阅读的茶壶,这样我就能睡着了。”这本书的结尾,比...
评分《特别响,非常近》这本书其实讲述了两个故事,一边是九岁男孩奥斯卡·谢尔如何由父亲遗物中的一枚钥匙展开寻宝游戏,一边是奥斯卡的爷爷奶奶在信件中讲述彼此的爱情故事,由这两个故事交织展开的这本小说,起初一直在提醒我们一种生活中不可弥补的裂痕——亲人的离开、死去,...
评分“9·11”袭击是美国本土遭到外来入侵的少有事件之一,它深刻影响了美国人的社会生活和美国历史的进程,也一度成了美国文学和电影的热门题材。乔纳森·萨福兰·弗尔2005年出版的《特别响·非常近》就是这类作品中颇受好评的一部。 作为弗尔的第二部小说,《特别响·非...
评分撕开《特别响,非常近》的塑料外套,随便翻翻,立刻就能发现这本书的“另类”——书中除了配有若干不怎么美观的插图,有几页只印了一句话,甚至还有一些空白页。很明显,这是一本在形式上有创新的小说。 作者乔纳森·弗尔是美国文学大师乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨的高足,他的...
he definitely uses way too much "crack up" and "heavy shoes".
评分玩了太多太多的trick。虽然很聪明,但是迷乱到让我读不出好坏了。
评分Anyone who believes a second is faster than a decade did not live live my life.
评分哭瞎的一塌糊涂。还没什么儿童视角的书可以这么打动我。心里脆弱的一面就这样被激发了。不只是911或者是德累斯顿大轰炸,更是情感的无处投递和无法交流。写作手法很棒,结局很美,当然也无比忧伤。
评分Jonathan的老师,才是真心牛。。这个电影我还没看,一定很棒。
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