England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him ... more »to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by doing so will the world be saved from the approaching catastrophe.
Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of remembrance, deception and the longing for home; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life.
石黑一雄,日裔英国小说家,1954年生于日本长崎,与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多,但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项:《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖,《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖,《长日将尽》获布克奖,《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖,《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单;1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章,1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章,2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量,发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。
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...
评分细说主要人物结局:侦探克里斯托弗得知父亲的失踪是和女人私奔,母亲被军阀王顾强娶羞辱生活惨烈,而自己在伦敦的一切全是因为母亲的牺牲;母亲一个反鸦片运动的积极分子被丈夫遗弃,为了反鸦片运动与军阀王顾结识,后被王顾强娶,为了儿子财务上的供应牺牲自己顺从王顾,战后...
评分Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?
评分Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?
评分Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?
评分Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?
评分Smacked into the materialism of the world of adulthood when still in the romanticism of early life. Solipsism, was it the word that would justifiably describe C. B.'s psychological status the moment he landed in Shanghai after eighteen years?
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