On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.
When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.
Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.
Elsa Hart was born in Rome, Italy, but her earliest memories are of Moscow, where her family lived until 1991. Since then she has lived in the Czech Republic, the U.S.A., and China. She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She wrote Jade Dragon Mountain in Lijiang, the city formerly known as Dayan. It is her first novel.
疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
Librarians, Jesuits, traveling scholars, astronomer and storyteller....期望值有点高,所以后面有些失望. 总的来说仍然是非常西方的叙事手法,建构在一个东方的背景里。以及,好多句式感觉似曾相识,有点“套路”。开头时用英文读中国故事的那种熟悉的陌生感逐渐被消解了。 P.S. Kangxi 前面加个定冠词the是什么用法,感觉很别扭。
评分布局精妙,历史背景与故事情节的融汇自然令人信服-来自一个被科普的历史文盲。草蛇灰线,每条线索都有交代。另外细节之处见真章,比如jia huan 应该读jiǎ huàn
评分厉害,本质上是一个很简单的家访找凶手的故事,但在各种副线交叉推进下剧情竟然非常流畅,基本第四章死人之后就停不下来了,结尾几个爆梗迷之联想到亲王,希望尽快影视化。用词简单看起来很快,各种景物生僻词脑补个大概全跳过去,说实话有点对不起作者这么细致的考究(出中文版再看一遍好了)。作者貌似不是专业研究者,所以出现了很多低级错误比如县令直接提拔进京,称呼皇上康熙之类,另外是我看漏了还是为了照顾外国读者没给角色们起表字,cousin来cousin去瞬间出戏
评分布局精妙,历史背景与故事情节的融汇自然令人信服-来自一个被科普的历史文盲。草蛇灰线,每条线索都有交代。另外细节之处见真章,比如jia huan 应该读jiǎ huàn
评分布局精妙,历史背景与故事情节的融汇自然令人信服-来自一个被科普的历史文盲。草蛇灰线,每条线索都有交代。另外细节之处见真章,比如jia huan 应该读jiǎ huàn
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