From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.
Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
在民国梦一度盛行又开始被解构的当下,读这本书还有点意思。 1.最重要的是Christopher这个角色的理想主义和软弱、中立和冷漠。 作为一个理想主义者,当他面对庸碌的逐利之徒时,明明是后者更叫人恶心,前者反而总是显得无理取闹和幼稚。这一点在他回到上海之后尤其明显,穿越...
评分正值考研失败,感受着努力未曾得到回报的痛苦。连着去了四天的校招,越来越迷茫、越来越不甘。我和别人说,不用担心,我有给自己做好心理建设,考研失败了嘛就找工作啊,又不是只有一条路。我可以找个普通工作,朝九晚五,给自己做饭、整理屋子、读读书、周末和朋友逛街小聚、...
评分 评分正值考研失败,感受着努力未曾得到回报的痛苦。连着去了四天的校招,越来越迷茫、越来越不甘。我和别人说,不用担心,我有给自己做好心理建设,考研失败了嘛就找工作啊,又不是只有一条路。我可以找个普通工作,朝九晚五,给自己做饭、整理屋子、读读书、周末和朋友逛街小聚、...
评分到上海之后开始出现超现实的情节,是作者有意为之,这并不是一部传统意义上的“侦探小说”,而是假借这一范式又将其拆解;背景环境的模糊以及尽量避免区域文化特征则是作者走向世界文学这一场域的一种写作策略。石黑一雄所写并非惊心动魄的故事,更非宏伟的史诗,而是人内心世...
我可以打兩分嗎?
评分没中文版内味儿啊…
评分跟上海不期而遇了。
评分Of course it turns out to have nothing to do with my research and the entire set-up has some intrinsic problems, but a good read nonetheless
评分我可以打兩分嗎?
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