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Sachiko&Mariko: eerie; Ogata&Jiro: restraining; Etsuko and her life story: unfinished, unexplained, mysterious.
评分不到两天就看完了,建立在之前读过中文版、知道最后的twist的基础上,第二遍可以说是shocking的阅读体验,原来Sachiko和Etsuko这个两个角色的重合如此精巧,看似二元实则一体,并且早早透露Keiko的结局再由Mariko的经历补齐,一副模糊的远山淡影最后迷雾退散,悲剧的发展脉络显现出来的那一刻不亚于侦探小说最后的揭示凶手。第二次读还读出了Etsuko和Ogata-san之间明显的暧昧,很多对话中都有隐义,甚至有点红楼梦中的写法。如石黑一雄的很多其他作品一样,这本书描绘了日本战后很多不同人的反应,Ogata-san代表的老一辈人对于战败的悲愤和新一代人对于战争的归罪对抗,向前看的人和活在过去的人的对比,对这个时期的深刻描摹真是石黑一雄的拿手菜。尽管是处女座,真是才情和创意满溢
评分不到两天就看完了,建立在之前读过中文版、知道最后的twist的基础上,第二遍可以说是shocking的阅读体验,原来Sachiko和Etsuko这个两个角色的重合如此精巧,看似二元实则一体,并且早早透露Keiko的结局再由Mariko的经历补齐,一副模糊的远山淡影最后迷雾退散,悲剧的发展脉络显现出来的那一刻不亚于侦探小说最后的揭示凶手。第二次读还读出了Etsuko和Ogata-san之间明显的暧昧,很多对话中都有隐义,甚至有点红楼梦中的写法。如石黑一雄的很多其他作品一样,这本书描绘了日本战后很多不同人的反应,Ogata-san代表的老一辈人对于战败的悲愤和新一代人对于战争的归罪对抗,向前看的人和活在过去的人的对比,对这个时期的深刻描摹真是石黑一雄的拿手菜。尽管是处女座,真是才情和创意满溢
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and having won the award in 1989, for his novel The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro's 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was named by Time as the best novel of the year, and was included in the magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. Growing up in a Japanese family in the UK was crucial to his writing, as it enabled him, he says, to see things from a different perspective to that of many of his British peers. His seventh novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015. In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". Ishiguro was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor. A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the recent suicide of Etsuko's older daughter, Keiko.
During a visit from her daughter, Niki, Etsuko reflects on her own life as a young woman in Japan, and how she left that country to live in England. As she describes it, she and her Japanese husband, Jiro, had a daughter together, and a few years later Etsuko met a British man and moved with him to England. She took her elder daughter, Keiko, to England to live with her and the new husband. When Etsuko and her new husband have a daughter, Etsuko wants to call her something "modern" and her husband wants an Eastern-sounding name, so they compromise with the name "Niki," which seems to Etsuko to be perfectly British, but sounds to her husband at least slightly Japanese. In England, Keiko becomes increasingly solitary and antisocial. Etsuko recalls how, as Keiko grew older, she would lock herself in her room and emerge only to pick up the dinner-plate that her mother would leave for her in the kitchen. This disturbing behavior ends, as the reader already has learned, in Keiko's suicide. "Your father," Etsuko tells Niki, "was rather idealistic at times...[H]e really believed we could give her a happy life over here... But you see, Niki, I knew all along. I knew all along she wouldn't be happy over here." Etsuko tells her daughter, Niki, that she had a friend in Japan named Sachiko. Sachiko had a daughter named Mariko, a girl whom Etsuko's memory paints as exceptionally solitary and antisocial. Sachiko, Etsuko recalls, had planned to take Mariko to America with an American soldier identified only as "Frank." Clearly, Sachiko's story bears striking similarities to Etsuko's.
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