From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.
Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
1、石黑一雄擅长运用零星的回忆编织故事,他认为通过这样一个过滤器,我们可以审视自己的生活。在《上海孤儿》中你大概就可以领略到他这一“娴熟的技巧”。但我有时担心的是,频繁使用这样的技巧会不会助长作家在叙述上的惰性。对于场景、事件地转换、过渡对很多作家来说有时要...
评分童年是什么?有时候是缺失记忆,有时候是重新构建,有时候是堆砌梦境,不论今后的人生会变成怎样,它在心底,一直牢牢盘踞。 “我们一旦长大成人,儿时就变得像另外一个国度”。在这里,懵懂的喜乐,懵懂的悲伤,终究在离开这个国度以后用后面的人生来解释偿还。 故事的背景是1...
评分童年是什么?有时候是缺失记忆,有时候是重新构建,有时候是堆砌梦境,不论今后的人生会变成怎样,它在心底,一直牢牢盘踞。 “我们一旦长大成人,儿时就变得像另外一个国度”。在这里,懵懂的喜乐,懵懂的悲伤,终究在离开这个国度以后用后面的人生来解释偿还。 故事的背景是1...
评分本书中,最让我触动的是班克斯的母亲,被军阀王顾娶为妾,囚于深山,王顾为了显示对白人女子的征服,在客人面前,鞭笞之。人前尚且如此,人后床底之间可想而知。而这一切,换来的是,军阀对鸦片禁运的假装不通融,给儿子班克斯源源不断的资金资助。无论受多大的苦,当母亲知道...
评分《我辈孤雏》是我看的第四本石黑一雄小说。看到80%,我已经抑制不住吐槽的冲动了,等看完连吐槽的兴趣都没有了。 故事如下:一个英国小孩生活在上海租界,与邻居日本小孩是朋友。一天,他爸跟情妇跑了,但他认为他爸是为了反抗帝国主义霸权被绑架了。又过了一阵,他妈妈被一个...
前三分之二写得很好,最后一部分莫名的编造感很重。但更大的问题是,一个外国人对二十世纪早期的中国和中国人的呈现,似乎让人不太舒服。
评分My favorite Ishiguro work
评分Started from Pingshe guest house, then on the train from Dali to Kunming and Kunming to Xiangyang. half done! Dreamed of the mather of hero after finished this book, so sorrow and you are unable to leave it behind after you closed the book. The most exciting part is the end of this novel! You can't help but moved by it!!!
评分每一部小说都能拍成一部电影~看他的书 脑子里就是很多电影长镜头 在每一个描述美好回忆细节的同时 隐隐感觉到日后发现真相时的痛苦和震惊!
评分前半部非常好,到了重返上海找父母,在战争前线穿过那些平民窟的部分真是让我又想到了前部作品《无可慰藉》,那种卡夫卡的诡异迷宫。好在结尾部分回复正常,精彩的收尾并切题when we were orphans!
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