Let the Great World Spin

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Colum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including "Apeirogon," due to be published in Spring 2020. His other books include "TransAtlantic," "Let the Great World Spin," "This Side of Brightness,""Dancer" and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers.

“Let the Great World Spin” won the National Book Award in 2009. His fiction has been published in over 40 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.

Colum has won numerous international awards and has been a bestseller on four continents. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish association of artists, Aosdana. He has also received a Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres from the French government. He is the cofounder of the global non-profit story exchange organisation Narrative 4.

In 2003 Colum was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. He was recently inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame for Irish Literature.

His short film "Everything in this Country Must," directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for an Academy Award Oscar in 2005.

Colum was born in Dublin in 1965 and began his career as a journalist in The Irish Press. In the early 1980's he took a bicycle across North America and then worked as a wilderness guide in a program for juvenile delinquents in Texas. After a year and a half in Japan, he and his wife Allison moved to New York where they currently live with their three children, Isabella, John Michael and Christian.

Colum teaches in Hunter College in New York, in the Creative Writing program, with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht.

Colum has completed his new novel, "Apeirogon." Crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, McCann tells the story of Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan. One is Israeli. One is Palestinian. Both are fathers. Both have lost their daughters to the conflict. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other's stories they recognize the loss that connects them, and they begin to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

In the novel McCann crosses centuries and continents. He stitches together time, art, history, nature and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.

It is scheduled for release in the U.S in February 2020.

Advance copies will be available here on GoodReads!!!!

出版者:Random House
作者:Colum McCann
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页数:368
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出版时间:2009-6-23
价格:USD 25.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400063734
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In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.

Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.

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不怎么好看。 出乎我的意料。看介绍应该是个很有意思的故事,可惜写的一般。上次看得the brief wondrous life of oscar wao跟这书一样,都是多重narritives,但都写的不够好。这种转换叙述者的写法,很容易让人感觉是作者在炫耀技术,弄巧成拙就成了作文练习。我觉得这两书的作者功力都不行,此书尤其像是短篇故事集,让人没动力读下去,我就始终不care里面的故事情节。当然,也有可能 多重narratives的目的是要塑造更立体的人物,但这书又没什么新鲜的characters。偏偏他还得了national book award, Oscar Wao得了pulitzer, 看来这种小说就是投评论家所好了。so far, 我最喜欢的小说,大多还是英国人写的。不知道是不是池塘对面的作家得确更加出色些。

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不怎么好看。 出乎我的意料。看介绍应该是个很有意思的故事,可惜写的一般。上次看得the brief wondrous life of oscar wao跟这书一样,都是多重narritives,但都写的不够好。这种转换叙述者的写法,很容易让人感觉是作者在炫耀技术,弄巧成拙就成了作文练习。我觉得这两书的作者功力都不行,此书尤其像是短篇故事集,让人没动力读下去,我就始终不care里面的故事情节。当然,也有可能 多重narratives的目的是要塑造更立体的人物,但这书又没什么新鲜的characters。偏偏他还得了national book award, Oscar Wao得了pulitzer, 看来这种小说就是投评论家所好了。so far, 我最喜欢的小说,大多还是英国人写的。不知道是不是池塘对面的作家得确更加出色些。

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很久前在书店看到中文版,翻了翻记下书名;前年暑期在机场书店偶遇原版;去年又在图书馆看到中文版,忍不住借来再对照原文精读。现McCann已是最爱作家之一,本书绝对经典!描绘了社会暗黑面,然而仍向光明。非常钦佩作者对异国了解之深。

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