Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Eleanor Catton, 27, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for her first novel, The Rehearsal, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship. She lives in New Zealand.
From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and a ship's captain of ill repute cancels all of his business and weighs anchor, as if making an escape. Anna Wetherell, the prostitute in question, is connected to all three men.
This sequence of apparently coincidental events provokes a secret council of powerful townsmen to investigate. But they are interrupted by the arrival of a stranger: young Walter Moody, who has a secret of his own...
THE LUMINARIES is an intricately crafted feat of storytelling, a mystery that reveals the ways our interconnected lives reshape our destinies.
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize
中译《明》(豆瓣说是哈利波特系列的译者的作品),又是本在我的audible里积灰了快五年,终于听完的书。值得二刷。鉴于作者一上来就把十几个人物“chua”地一股脑摆在读者面前,听有声书是个好主意——口音有时候要比人名好辨认。 这本书的结构挺神奇:章节的长度是递减的,每...
评分 评分这是继The Whale Rider后读到的第二本新西兰小说,之所以会有兴趣找来这本读,一是因为布克奖的光环,二是因为作者是我的同龄人。本书当然算不上一本完美的小说,不过花了很长时间终于读完后,倒是完全可以理解为什么能得奖。任何一本小说其实可以用独特来形容,然而这本的独特...
评分中译《明》(豆瓣说是哈利波特系列的译者的作品),又是本在我的audible里积灰了快五年,终于听完的书。值得二刷。鉴于作者一上来就把十几个人物“chua”地一股脑摆在读者面前,听有声书是个好主意——口音有时候要比人名好辨认。 这本书的结构挺神奇:章节的长度是递减的,每...
评分今年年头的时候,南半球的夏天,我和好友S去新西兰游玩,因为不是自驾,全程几乎都是坐大巴。新西兰的大巴司机挺有意思,路上会带上麦克风和旅客聊风景。然后某一程上,司机大叔介绍了一本小说,说这本小说讲新西兰淘金时代的故事,好评如潮,他的原话是’international sensat...
布克奖就是个坑
评分实在没觉出啥好来
评分不错可以
评分不错
评分因为kindle版减价所以买下来。想去搜一下plot剧透但发现goodreads和douban都没有就作罢。看了四分之一,感觉情节进展缓慢,语言啰嗦。每个人物性格都从第三人称角度来写,在旁观中剖析,让人没有和书中人感同身受的共情感觉。有点枯燥,也许是我不太喜欢看破案小说吧
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