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 评分将《特别响,非常近》视做9•11小说,未免小瞧了它。没错,其故事源头与背景是那场惨绝人寰的悲剧,人物的痛楚与悲伤亦环绕之,但作家乔纳森•萨福兰•弗尔显然未将自己的创作拘囿于一个固定事件的限定中,他借一名孩童的寻觅之途,延展开去,探究着更具普泛性的肉身与...
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...
Jonathan的老师,才是真心牛。。这个电影我还没看,一定很棒。
评分he definitely uses way too much "crack up" and "heavy shoes".
评分Jonathan的老师,才是真心牛。。这个电影我还没看,一定很棒。
评分he definitely uses way too much "crack up" and "heavy shoes".
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。
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