Arundhati Roy is the author of a number of books, including The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages. She was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in Delhi, where she now lives. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy, Walking with the Comrades, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, The End of Imagination, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize, the 2011 Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, and the 2015 Ambedkar Sudar award.
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family.
在50页之后,这本读起来艰涩而毫无头绪的书,开始转变为一朵奇妙绽开的曼陀罗花,在螺旋一般的旋转中散发出强烈的吸引力。当那多次波折的段落立体起来,一座烦闷的迷宫墙壁光滑并且闪光,相互磨砺链接,最终成为一颗多面而闪耀的钻石。 命运和历史从每一页中穿梭而过,卷带着...
评分看过不少当代小说,这是唯一一本文字上算得上有风格的书。作者的文风独特,可比莎士比亚的绚丽,张爱玲的冷艳。许多小说或者有精彩的情节堆砌,但在文字方面能够令人品味无穷的就是这本了。 故事的情节本也非常跌宕,然而文字的魅力令人实在不忍匆匆读过。理想的文字便是这...
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评分我读的是另一译本:《卑微的神灵》。不管怎样我们谈论的是同一部小说。它让我看到一个人怎样面对残酷往事,个人记忆中最锥心的那个部分,怎样毫不回避地以生命相迎相撞,再现之(悲剧的产生,悲剧的必然,悲剧中最丑陋和最美丽的部分)。智慧相伴的无畏,痛与爱的交织,又是如...
评分“洛伊以优美动人的笔触,一层层揭开作品的神秘面纱;她对故事的灵巧闪避,令人目眩,讨论情节对她将是一种冒犯。就像虔诚地建造神殿一般,《微物之神》以精致、热烈而动人的情节,建成了庞大的连锁结构。一部真正有所追求的小说,应该创造出属于它自己的语言,此书做到了这一...
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