Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel, "Brooklyn," is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.By far Toibin's most instantly engaging and emotionally resonant novel, "Brooklyn" will make readers fall in love with his gorgeous writing and spellbinding characters.
Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978. Out of his experience in Barcelona be produced two books, the novel ‘The South’ (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in 1990. When he returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a journalist for ‘In Dublin’, ‘Hibernia’ and ‘The Sunday Tribune’, becoming features editor of ‘In Dublin’ in 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland’s current affairs magazine, in 1982. He left Magill in 1985 and travelled in Africa and South America. His journalism from the 1980s was collected in ‘The Trial of the Generals’ (1990). His other work as a journalist and travel writer includes ‘Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border’ (1987) and ‘The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe’ (1994). His other novels are: ‘The Heather Blazing (1992, winner of the Encore Award); ‘The Story of the Night’ (1996, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Prize); ‘The Blackwater Lightship’ (1999, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize and the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury); ‘The Master’ (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize); ‘Brooklyn’ (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are ‘Mothers and Sons’ (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and ‘The Empty Family (2010). His play ‘Beauty in a Broken Place’ was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: ‘The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950’ (with Carmen Callil); ‘Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush’ (2002); ‘Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar’ (2002) and ‘All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James’ (2010). He has edited ‘The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction’. His work has been translated into thirty languages. In 2008, a book of essays on his work ‘Reading Colm Toibin’, edited by Paul Delaney, was published. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ulster and from University College Dublin. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. In 2006 he was appointed to the Arts Council in Ireland. He has twice been Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University and also been a visiting writer at the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University.
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这本书最让我印象深刻的是它对“身份”这一概念的探讨。主角们似乎总是在两种或多种身份之间摇摆不定,他们试图扮演不同的角色来适应不同的环境,但最终都暴露了内心深处对真实自我的渴求。作者通过反复设置相似的场景和人物原型,来强化这种身份的模糊性和流动性。这种重复和变奏的手法,营造出一种梦境般的循环感,让你开始怀疑,究竟哪个才是主角真正的面貌?书中的象征意义非常丰富,虽然没有明说,但一些重复出现的物件和色彩,都似乎承载着特定的哲学寓意,值得反复推敲和解读。它不是一个看完就束之高阁的故事,更像是一个可以放在手边,时常翻阅的文本库,每次重读都会有新的发现,就像在解开一个永远不会完全解开的谜团。这种开放式的结局和多义性的处理,体现了作者极高的文学自信和对读者智慧的信任。这无疑是一部需要时间来沉淀和尊重的作品。
评分读完之后,一股挥之不去的情绪沉淀下来,那是对“选择”这个主题的深刻反思。作者巧妙地构建了一个充满两难困境的世界,没有绝对的对错,只有基于当时环境和个人局限性做出的权衡。我常常在想,如果我是那个主角,我会做出一样的决定吗?答案往往是模棱两可的。书中对人际关系的处理尤其精妙,那种血缘、情感和现实利益纠缠在一起的复杂网状结构,真实得让人心痛。有一段关于家庭矛盾的描写,语言简洁得近乎冷酷,但正是这种克制,反而爆发出强大的情感冲击力。它不像那种煽情的小说,用大段的文字去渲染悲伤,而是通过精准的动作和环境的烘托,让读者自己去体会那种无声的呐喊。这种叙事技巧,高明之处在于,它尊重读者的智商和感受力,不把结论强行塞给你,而是让你在字里行间自己去拼凑、去解读。看完后,我合上书本,沉默了很久,那种被一个故事‘教育’了的感觉,是很多作品都无法给予的。
评分这本小说简直像一剂强心针,一下子把我拉进了那个喧嚣又迷离的时代背景里。作者对细节的捕捉能力简直令人叹为观止,那种旧时光特有的那种带着灰尘和阳光味道的质感,透过文字扑面而来。我尤其喜欢他对人物内心挣扎的描摹,那种微妙的情绪变化,不是直白的宣泄,而是像水波一样层层晕开,让你不得不停下来反复品味。读到某个关键情节时,我甚至能清晰地想象出主人公站在街角,夜风吹动他衣角的画面,那种孤独感和希望并存的复杂情绪,被刻画得入木三分。它不是那种情节跌宕起伏到让人喘不过气的作品,更像是一幅缓缓展开的油画,需要你耐下心来,慢慢欣赏每一笔色彩的铺陈和光影的对比。整个阅读过程,我感觉自己就像是那个城市里一个不起眼的过客,目睹着人生的起落浮沉,却又被卷入其中,感同身受。书中的一些对话片段,短小精悍,却蕴含着巨大的信息量,让人回味无穷,仿佛每一句都能打开一扇通往不同人生的门。那种对生活本质的探寻,那种对个体在宏大时代洪流中如何自处的思考,让这本书的深度远超出了一个普通故事的范畴。
评分这本书的节奏掌控堪称教科书级别,行文流畅得让人几乎感觉不到时间的流逝。它有一种独特的韵律感,像爵士乐一样,时而舒缓低沉,时而忽然一个即兴的加速,让你措手不及却又拍手叫绝。特别是书中关于某个特定地点的场景描写,那种地域性的文化烙印被刻画得如此鲜活,仿佛我能闻到空气中特有的气味,听到远处的喧嚣声。作者对环境的运用,不仅仅是作为背景板,而是成为了推动情节发展的隐形力量,环境本身也在‘呼吸’,也在‘说话’。我特别欣赏作者处理‘时间’的方式,它不是线性的推进,而是像记忆一样跳跃、回溯、重叠,这种非线性的结构,反而更贴合人类的真实体验。那种怀旧的情绪,不是简单的伤感,而是一种对逝去时光的致敬,带着一丝狡黠的幽默感。读到最后,我甚至有些依依不舍,仿佛刚刚离开一个认识了很久的朋友,那种告别带来的空虚感,久久不能平复。
评分说实话,初读时我略感吃力,因为它没有设置传统意义上的“钩子”来立刻抓住你,它的魅力是慢慢渗透进来的,像陈年的酒,后劲十足。这本书的语言风格非常独特,它混合了一种近乎诗意的疏离感和一种赤裸裸的现实主义的犀利。很多句子结构非常大胆,打破常规,但当你深入理解了人物的处境后,会发现这种不寻常的句式,恰恰是捕捉角色内心混乱或极度专注状态的最佳方式。它挑战了阅读习惯,迫使你放慢速度,去解码每一个词语背后的深层含义。这种阅读上的“阻力”,反而是它高质量的证明。它不是提供即时满足感的快餐文学,而是需要你投入心力去‘赢取’其精髓的作品。我特别赞赏作者在描述社会阶层差异时所展现出的冷静和精准,没有道德批判,只有客观的描摹,这种不动声色的力量,比任何激烈的控诉都更具穿透力。它让人反思,我们所处的社会结构是如何塑造了每一个个体的命运轨迹。
评分跟电影很不一样,没那么温情
评分离开熟悉的环境去异乡打拼、再苦再累也坚持撑下去、最后总算找到属于自己的幸福。
评分书里的情绪果然跟罗南的眼睛一样。结尾未免有点潦草
评分仿佛看到了自己
评分书里的情绪果然跟罗南的眼睛一样。结尾未免有点潦草
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