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.
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.
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...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
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...
(代标)翻译3星,语言没有考虑历史语境,语感也不太好,也不排除原文一些表达确实是现代性的;故事4星,前期较平,往后渐入佳境,最后还跟《长安十二时辰》撞梗了。作者大概在努力营造中国的氛围,但视角和口吻还是蛮西方的。
评分还不错啊。看到教士、草药和设计精妙的藏书阁,本以为是茶马古道版玫瑰之名,结果还是走的经典推理路线。
评分外国人写的以清代西南边陲为场景的推理,虽然主线由耶稣会与多明我会的冲突推动,人物的身份使得情节很容易推测,但在边域/官场氛围的塑造上颇见工夫,并不出戏。(kindle版中国亚马逊竟然比美亚贵很多,太不合理)以后应该会有中文版吧。
评分没想到这居然是今年看完的第一本英文书,看到倒数第二章的时候想给四星的但是最后一章又觉得值五星了,人物写得都很好,男主特别苏,里面的小故事和主线及主要支线之间的关系设置得有趣,另外还有文字书写/故事之间的好玩的讨论。。。
评分外国人写的以清代西南边陲为场景的推理,虽然主线由耶稣会与多明我会的冲突推动,人物的身份使得情节很容易推测,但在边域/官场氛围的塑造上颇见工夫,并不出戏。(kindle版中国亚马逊竟然比美亚贵很多,太不合理)以后应该会有中文版吧。
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