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JOSE SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. Death is on strike. Soon though, the residents begin to suffer. For several months undertakers fake bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally.
Death does return eventually, but with a new corteous approach - delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?
读的过程中突然想起托尔金《精灵宝钻》中的一句话,看《精灵宝钻》就看了一点点,但是对这句话印象深刻:人类的“命运”(the Doom,或“礼物”[the Gift])是必死的命运,拥有脱离世界范围的自由。也正是因为追求不同,同为半精灵的孪生兄弟埃尔隆德和埃尔洛斯选择了不同的命...
評分 評分读的过程中突然想起托尔金《精灵宝钻》中的一句话,看《精灵宝钻》就看了一点点,但是对这句话印象深刻:人类的“命运”(the Doom,或“礼物”[the Gift])是必死的命运,拥有脱离世界范围的自由。也正是因为追求不同,同为半精灵的孪生兄弟埃尔隆德和埃尔洛斯选择了不同的命...
評分 評分Death at Intervals 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024