Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of eleven books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, and, most recently, Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, 'Wolf Hall' is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and courage.
历史小说与现在时态,似乎是不相兼容的二者,不过,英国作家希拉里•曼特尔的《狼厅》却奇特地将之融汇在一起,因为,“每件历史的背后,都有另一个历史”,曼特尔着意于挖掘其背面的幽微之处,为历史人物留出足够的人性空间,在发展流变中丰满角色的性格。于是,遥远的英...
評分狼厅 Wolf Hall 读后感 转自台湾网友:Ruth 亨利八世,第一个知道的是他改革宗教为英国国教,那是我第一段知道关于这个帝王的历史。之后知道他的女儿也就是伊莉莎白女皇,莎士比亚年代时的女皇。后来又有许多电影描述那个年代,而美人心机就是谈论亨利八世为了迎娶安妮而和教...
評分《狼厅》:历史小说的现在时 转自09.10.13上海一周 文:btr 2005年,约翰·班维尔《大海》。2006年,基兰·德塞《失落的承继》。2007年,安妮·恩莱特《聚会》。2008年,阿兰温德·阿迪加《白虎》。那么,2009年? 授予英国、爱尔兰及英联邦国家当年最佳小说的布克奖...
評分都铎王朝解密 李若庸(国立台北大学历史学系副教授) 本文为台版导读 如果要读者票选一位印象最为深刻的英国国王,那么都铎君主大概抡元无疑了:从结束「玫瑰战争」的亨利七世、娶了六次妻子的亨利八世、化身「乞丐王子」的爱德华六世、登基九日便踏上行刑台的珍.格雷,到「...
評分Thomas Cromwell is remaking himself, and a sovereign. He suffices the King's needs while destroying a disgusting church, plus the despicable, people-burning Thomas More. The plot is delicately simple, yet scenes are magically present. The author could have done readers a greater service by replacing 80% of the "he" with just simply "Cromwell".
评分我太喜歡Mantel的文風瞭
评分英國人寫起人情世故也是細緻入微,幾處閑筆就能改變整個人的形象。文字有張力,故事也極精彩。
评分得過大奬的 慕名而看的。文筆絕佳。這段曆史我不熟悉 不做評價
评分英國人寫起人情世故也是細緻入微,幾處閑筆就能改變整個人的形象。文字有張力,故事也極精彩。
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