莎拉・杜楠特生活在伦敦和佛罗伦萨。写过八部小说,编过两本文集,其中小说《一错再错》(Transgressions)和《敢为人先》(Mappin9 theEdge)被搬上银幕,引起了公众广泛的注意。她的职业生涯十分复杂,曾在电视台、广播电台和出版业工作过,现在仍是英国广播电台品牌艺术节目“夜间电波”的播音员。
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
From the Hardcover edition.
读的这句话时,我满心欢喜。当然不是说我常口吐花瓣,只是觉得这个比喻如此生动,少女所见都可以纳入自身的世界。 全书的故事,一言以弊之,那就是一个女性成长的经历吧。尽管故事的背景被设定在了一个极尽豪奢却又摇摇欲坠的时代和城市,主人公对于爱情、自由的追求以及特定时...
评分读的这句话时,我满心欢喜。当然不是说我常口吐花瓣,只是觉得这个比喻如此生动,少女所见都可以纳入自身的世界。 全书的故事,一言以弊之,那就是一个女性成长的经历吧。尽管故事的背景被设定在了一个极尽豪奢却又摇摇欲坠的时代和城市,主人公对于爱情、自由的追求以及特定时...
评分吸引我买<维纳斯的诞生>的并非简介,而是书上的标签.虽然简介写得很是花哨,比如私生子,还有娈童者什么,不过真正的原因是推荐它的是纽约时报的畅销书。我先前谈过的谭恩美的小说也曾经是这里的座上客,在我的感觉中,时报的推荐书,和获得了中国的矛盾文学奖一样,总是会吸引...
评分一下是我看完书后写得一篇日志: 今天凌晨一两点多我才睡觉,终于把觊觎已久的书看完了。 心里真可以说是百感交集。 因为看书的速度太快,我又比较疲劳,看的时候并没有太多感慨。 然而看完整本书,我躺在床上,回想着书中的情节故事,竟然哭了。 我没想到我会哭,而且很想嚎啕...
评分读的这句话时,我满心欢喜。当然不是说我常口吐花瓣,只是觉得这个比喻如此生动,少女所见都可以纳入自身的世界。 全书的故事,一言以弊之,那就是一个女性成长的经历吧。尽管故事的背景被设定在了一个极尽豪奢却又摇摇欲坠的时代和城市,主人公对于爱情、自由的追求以及特定时...
读起来很通顺很舒服,确实有点狗血,结尾安排不太理解
评分一段文艺复兴时期狗血的爱情故事,但由于糅合了关于宗教,艺术,自由,欲望的描述与讨论,还是有趣,值得一读,但确实不如烟花散尽和神圣的心优雅。
评分Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
评分Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
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