A Pale View of Hills 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 小說 英文 英國 日本 人生 1982 笑來推薦 石黑一雄
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不到兩天就看完瞭,建立在之前讀過中文版、知道最後的twist的基礎上,第二遍可以說是shocking的閱讀體驗,原來Sachiko和Etsuko這個兩個角色的重閤如此精巧,看似二元實則一體,並且早早透露Keiko的結局再由Mariko的經曆補齊,一副模糊的遠山淡影最後迷霧退散,悲劇的發展脈絡顯現齣來的那一刻不亞於偵探小說最後的揭示凶手。第二次讀還讀齣瞭Etsuko和Ogata-san之間明顯的曖昧,很多對話中都有隱義,甚至有點紅樓夢中的寫法。如石黑一雄的很多其他作品一樣,這本書描繪瞭日本戰後很多不同人的反應,Ogata-san代錶的老一輩人對於戰敗的悲憤和新一代人對於戰爭的歸罪對抗,嚮前看的人和活在過去的人的對比,對這個時期的深刻描摹真是石黑一雄的拿手菜。盡管是處女座,真是纔情和創意滿溢
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評分Shocked, greatly, by the end the penultimate chapter.
評分Shocked, greatly, by the end the penultimate chapter.
評分Sachiko&Mariko: eerie; Ogata&Jiro: restraining; Etsuko and her life story: unfinished, unexplained, mysterious.
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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