Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
乔纳森•萨福兰•弗尔(Jonathan Safran Foer),1977年出生于华盛顿,在普林斯顿大学求学期间师承乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨,学习写作,获得高级创意写作论文奖。他的短篇小说曾在《巴黎评论》和《纽约客》上发表,2000年获得西洋镜小说奖。
毕业之后,弗尔前往乌克兰旅行,随后完成首部长篇小说《了了》(Everything Is Illuminated),该书为他赢得全美犹太人图书奖和《卫报》首作奖。2005年,《了了》被导演列维•施瑞博尔搬上银幕。同年,《特别响,非常近》出版,为他带来更大的荣誉和更广泛的认知度,并被《朗读者》导演斯蒂芬•戴德利看中,改编成电影。2009年,弗尔出版了非虚构作品《吃动物》(Eating Animals),探讨素食主义。
2007年,弗尔入选《格兰塔》杂志“美国最优秀青年作家”,2010年,入选《纽约客》“四十岁以下二十位最佳作家”。
目前,弗尔担任纽约大学创意写作课程教授,与同是小说家的妻子妮可•克劳斯住在布鲁克林。
作者笔下的奥斯卡,感觉的的确确是一个9岁的孩子。在面对父亲电话那一头留下的最后的留言不知所措,对于突然失去父亲的不知所措...面对自己内心深深的内疚,恐惧及悲痛,奥斯卡似乎很清楚自己要怎么去克服去帮助自己渡过,又似乎被搅在一起的外面世界所发生的种种的不幸事件,卷...
评分奥登在《葬礼蓝调》中这样书写:“他曾经是我的东,我的西,我的南,我的北/我的工作天,我的休息日/我的正午,我的夜半,我的话语,我的歌吟……”这段话其实也是《特别响,非常近》中的小奥斯卡所想要述说的悲伤吧。父亲在“9•11”事件中丧身,只留下六通电话留言,还有钥...
评分作者笔下的奥斯卡,感觉的的确确是一个9岁的孩子。在面对父亲电话那一头留下的最后的留言不知所措,对于突然失去父亲的不知所措...面对自己内心深深的内疚,恐惧及悲痛,奥斯卡似乎很清楚自己要怎么去克服去帮助自己渡过,又似乎被搅在一起的外面世界所发生的种种的不幸事件,卷...
评分由汤姆·汉克斯主演的“9·11”影片《特别响,非常近》于今年初上映,并入围奥斯卡两项大奖,而影片其实改编于同名小说,小说作者是1977年出生的乔纳森·萨福兰·弗尔(Jonathan Safran Foer)。就在电影《特别响,非常近》即将在今年上海电影节期间上映之际,小说中文版...
评分我喜欢奥斯卡•谢尔可。他就比我的宝贝大一点。如果可以,我希望我的孩子像他那么聪明。那么,有能力来想象无限。 奥斯卡常常在脑子里发明各种奇妙的事物。 比如,他发明了一种鸟食衬衫,这样人类在需要逃生时就可以飞了。这其实是为了他爸爸发明的。他还发明了一种像魔方一...
foer is such a genius. innovative and somehow world-changing.
评分I cried when reading this book.
评分I cried when reading this book.
评分玩了太多太多的trick。虽然很聪明,但是迷乱到让我读不出好坏了。
评分overrated. contrived. utterly unconvincing, unbelievable and unrelatable narrator.
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