Veteran filmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years" (Glamour). It tells the story of a year in the lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break--a chance to travel through the U.S. to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by an American meat exporting business. But along the way, she discovers some unsavory truths about love, honor, and a particularly damaging hormone called DES that wreaks havoc with her uterus. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her child-craving husband to put some meat on her bones--literally. How Jane's and Akiko's lives intersect taps into some of the deepest concerns of our time--how the past informs the present and how we live and love in an ever-shrinking world.
A cross-cultural, tragi-comic romp through America and Japan that is "wonderfully wild and bracing . . . a feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next" (Newsweek).
"Ozeki masks a deeper purpose with a light tone. . . . A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel." -Jane Smiley, Chicago Tribune Book Review (front page)
Akiko的使命之一是担负买避孕套的重责。在药店里她开不了口,日落黄昏,她得挣扎过自己的害羞,去巷子角落的自动贩卖机买。慌忙间她买错了牌子,担心挨丈夫骂,那让她难堪。 她一面绕远路走回家,一面故意想些分散注意力的仿佛有趣的问题。 真让人心疼,书写得意外好。有点想慢...
评分Akiko的使命之一是担负买避孕套的重责。在药店里她开不了口,日落黄昏,她得挣扎过自己的害羞,去巷子角落的自动贩卖机买。慌忙间她买错了牌子,担心挨丈夫骂,那让她难堪。 她一面绕远路走回家,一面故意想些分散注意力的仿佛有趣的问题。 真让人心疼,书写得意外好。有点想慢...
评分Akiko的使命之一是担负买避孕套的重责。在药店里她开不了口,日落黄昏,她得挣扎过自己的害羞,去巷子角落的自动贩卖机买。慌忙间她买错了牌子,担心挨丈夫骂,那让她难堪。 她一面绕远路走回家,一面故意想些分散注意力的仿佛有趣的问题。 真让人心疼,书写得意外好。有点想慢...
评分Akiko的使命之一是担负买避孕套的重责。在药店里她开不了口,日落黄昏,她得挣扎过自己的害羞,去巷子角落的自动贩卖机买。慌忙间她买错了牌子,担心挨丈夫骂,那让她难堪。 她一面绕远路走回家,一面故意想些分散注意力的仿佛有趣的问题。 真让人心疼,书写得意外好。有点想慢...
评分Akiko的使命之一是担负买避孕套的重责。在药店里她开不了口,日落黄昏,她得挣扎过自己的害羞,去巷子角落的自动贩卖机买。慌忙间她买错了牌子,担心挨丈夫骂,那让她难堪。 她一面绕远路走回家,一面故意想些分散注意力的仿佛有趣的问题。 真让人心疼,书写得意外好。有点想慢...
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评分内心触动。近期读过的最好的一本小说,不论心理描写还是情节描绘都接近我所想象的完美,坐等读第二遍。
评分其實也是種族主義和物種主義的並行了,其實本可以有更多關於身而為人的反省的。又想起爸媽把丟丟關在這麼小的房間裡...
评分内心触动。近期读过的最好的一本小说,不论心理描写还是情节描绘都接近我所想象的完美,坐等读第二遍。
评分为了做功课读的,读得算是很认真,视角独特,三个人的角度都很深刻也颇有戏谑的味道。不过没有打五星的冲动
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