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。
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...
评分《特别响,非常近》这本书其实讲述了两个故事,一边是九岁男孩奥斯卡·谢尔如何由父亲遗物中的一枚钥匙展开寻宝游戏,一边是奥斯卡的爷爷奶奶在信件中讲述彼此的爱情故事,由这两个故事交织展开的这本小说,起初一直在提醒我们一种生活中不可弥补的裂痕——亲人的离开、死去,...
评分 评分书中的小男孩最后走出了困境。我想,读书的人在和书中人物一起旅行过一段时间后,大概也会找到办法面对过往的伤痛。死去的人肯定会希望活着的人过得好。而活着的人应该珍惜生命,好好善待亲人和朋友。 这本书写得挺美的。结构虽然有点复杂但读起来并不困难(感觉也是...
Dresden, Little Boy, 9-11..A family business
评分overrated. contrived. utterly unconvincing, unbelievable and unrelatable narrator.
评分时差还没倒清楚,早上五点就睡不着,还是慢慢把书看完了。书跟电影真是差大发了……完全就是两个东西……看书的时候真的也泪目了,却不是全因为小男孩。奶奶和renter的故事写的太好了,电影完全可以展现出更多的
评分Grandma: I thought it wouldn't be necessary and there would be other nights. But it's always necessary. I love you, Oskar.
评分foer is such a genius. innovative and somehow world-changing.
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