The new novel from William Gibson, "one of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." ( The Boston Globe )
Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she's broke, and Bigend never feels it's beneath him to use whatever power comes his way -- in this case, the power of money to bring Hollis onto his team again. Not that she knows what the "team" is up to, not at first.
Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He's worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic - so much so that he spoke Russian with his therapist, in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him.
Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Most recently he jumped off the highest building in the world, opening his chute at the last moment, and he has a new thighbone made of rattan baked into bone, entirely experimental, to show for it. Garreth isn't owned by Bigend at all. Garreth has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that a man like Bigend will find he needs, when things go unexpectedly sideways, in a world a man like Bigend is accustomed to controlling.
As when a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy that even Bigend, whose subtlety and power in the private sector would be hard to overstate, finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift in a seriously dangerous world.
William Gibson was born in the United States in 1948. In 1972 he moved to Vancouver, Canada, after four years spent in Toronto. He is married with two children.
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坦白说,初读这本书时,我经历了一段相当艰难的适应期。它的世界观构建得极其庞大而复杂,充满了各种只有在深入阅读后才能理解的专业术语和历史背景。一开始,我感觉自己像个闯入者,对各种规则和人脉关系一无所知,只能被角色推着往前走。但这正是它的魅力所在——它拒绝提供廉价的解释。作者坚持让读者自己去拼凑这个碎片化的现实,每一次新的发现,都伴随着巨大的满足感,仿佛自己也参与了这场漫长的探索。这种需要投入大量精力去构建认知模型的阅读体验,对于习惯了快餐式阅读的现代人来说,无疑是一种考验。但一旦你跨过了最初的门槛,那种“我理解了”的顿悟感,是无与伦比的。它教会了我,真正的深度,往往需要我们付出对等的努力去挖掘。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直是教科书级别的。从一开始那个阴郁、充满迷雾的开场,就紧紧抓住了我的心神,仿佛我本人也被拖入了一个无法逃脱的巨大阴谋之中。作者对于时间线的处理极其精妙,那些看似不经意间抛出的线索,在后续的章节中如同精准的齿轮般咬合,推动着整个故事链条向前。我特别欣赏那种“抽丝剥茧”的写作手法,不是一股脑地倾泻信息,而是像耐心的侦探一样,引导着读者去发现那些隐藏在日常表象之下的真相。有那么几个转折点,我甚至需要停下来,深吸一口气,才能消化那种信息量的突然爆发。人物的内心独白和外部行动之间的张力,营造出一种令人窒息的悬疑感。这本书最成功的地方,在于它让你持续地、全神贯注地去“思考”情节,而不是被动地接受叙述。那种读完后合上书页,脑海中仍然回响着无数未解之谜和隐喻的体验,是很多同类作品难以企及的。它需要的不仅仅是阅读,更需要一种全身心的投入和解析。
评分这本书在角色塑造方面,展现了一种令人不安的真实感。这些人物绝非脸谱化的好人或坏蛋,他们被困在各自的道德灰色地带,行为逻辑复杂到让人难以简单地去评判。我尤其欣赏作者对那些边缘角色的刻画,他们往往是推动情节发展但又游离于主流视野之外的存在。他们的动机深藏不露,每一次选择都像是经过了无数次内心挣扎的权衡。读着读着,我开始怀疑,如果我置身于那样的极端环境下,我的选择是否会比他们更光明磊落。这种对人性的深刻挖掘,超越了简单的善恶二元论,直抵人性的幽暗与脆弱。它迫使读者去面对自身认知的局限性,并承认,在某些宏大的结构面前,个体的挣扎显得如此徒劳却又无比壮烈。这种对“局限性”的探讨,使得角色形象立体到让人心痛。
评分从整体的阅读感受来看,这本书提供了一种近乎冥想的体验,但这种冥想却充斥着警觉和不安。它不仅仅是一个关于某个事件的故事,它更像是一个关于“记忆”、“遗忘”与“重建真实”的寓言。书中反复出现的意象,比如不断重复的场景、模糊的证词,都在营造一种“我们所见是否就是全部”的哲学拷问。我感觉作者有意地在削弱读者的确定性,让我们像主人公一样,无法完全信任自己的感官和记忆。这种对“不可靠叙述”的运用达到了炉火纯青的地步,使得整个故事弥漫着一种令人不安的诗意。每次我以为自己抓住了主线,总有新的元素跳出来,将一切又打乱重组。这并非一个令人放松的读物,但它无疑是一次对智识和感知极限的挑战与拓展,是值得反复品味的深度之作。
评分我对这本作品的艺术处理方式感到由衷的赞叹。它展现了一种对语言的极致掌控力,每一句话都仿佛经过了千锤百炼,摒弃了所有多余的赘述,只留下最精炼、最有冲击力的表达。文字的质感非常独特,尤其是在描绘那些特定的场景时,那种冷峻、近乎疏离的笔触,完美地烘托了故事核心那种冰冷而理性的基调。这不是那种煽情的小说,它更像是一部冷静的观察报告,但其中蕴含的情感张力却更加强大,因为它被压抑、被内化了。我发现自己会不自觉地放慢语速去品味那些富有哲思的片段,它们并非生硬地植入,而是有机地融入到角色面对困境时的思考过程之中。这种风格的统一性和高级感,让整本书在文学层面上达到了一个非常高的水准。它挑战了传统叙事中对“清晰度”的定义,更侧重于营造一种特定的氛围和精神状态,让人在阅读过程中感到既困惑又着迷。
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