圖書標籤: SarahWaters 英國文學 女性 英文原版 英文 小說 Lesbian 薩拉·沃特斯
发表于2024-12-25
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be...
This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all, a wonderful, compelling story.
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. Author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, her most recent book is The Little Stranger. All of her books have attracted prizes: she won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television.
The Little Stranger was a bestselling hardback and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
差點忘瞭這本,我簡直是以看虐文的心情把最後一截看完的,華老師描寫女性小動作還是這麼細膩,不說瞭BBC快去買瞭拍。
評分affairs,homosexual or heterosexual,share the same bromidic and banal romantic cliche in the eye of a perspicacious bystander.
評分如此的細膩,如此的細節,卻又有那麼多的層次!事態的發展、人物的情緒,無時無刻不在變化著(feel moment by moment with the characters)。這是個拉拉故事,卻厚重得囊括瞭整個人類的情感:愛與恨、恐懼、懦弱與勇敢。華老師挑瞭一條艱苦的道路(the aftermath of crime),死亡不再是聳聳肩就可以揮之而去的,而這“之後”的重復與冗長是如此血肉豐盈!
評分朗讀者的口齒最近不知不覺對我有一定的正音效果。故事開頭跟Sarah Waters 其他幾本有雷同的情節,讓我略感倦怠。後麵的走嚮有點不同,作者似乎意圖讓人物變得更為復雜,但處理得不夠成熟,類似《小小陌生人》的寫法,不可靠的主要人物和復雜的心理變化,可能是一本過渡階段的作品吧?
評分sw就喜歡對女主進行非人的精神摺磨 短則一個月長則小半年 雖然這本書裏頭最多也就摺磨瞭一個月 但是篇幅占瞭一半 到結局還是無盡的痛苦 你媽啊...看瘋瞭....
出于对她前几部书的热爱,尤其是直追狄更斯”荒凉山庄”的”轻舔丝绒”, 直接在第一时间买了她这本最新作品。 整部小说虽然以第三人称Frances来写,但视角实际上是第一人称视角,处处都是描述Frances的经历和感觉。题材仍然和同性恋有关,但故事简单了很多,没有前几部作品中...
評分华老师的盛名在这里就不多作赘述了。 她的小说,你读的越多,越会发现她是属于“套路很深”的那一类作家。她熟悉并掌握所有可以吊人胃口的套路,却从不令我讨厌,相反还很是受用。 《房客》的第一个看点,综合了小说简介,自然是“且看这俩女的咋搞起来”。 小说里,弗朗西丝和...
評分 評分这本书和华老师前几本相比,意外的容易读,不过我还是惯性的以不着调的节奏,今天看一点,明天看一点,直到30%才进入状态,而看到50%的时候就进入秉烛夜读的模式一晚上看完了,虽然最后10%看得有点痛苦。 不知道是不是这一部看得格外带入的关系,中间虽然情节并没有太出乎意料...
評分熟悉华老师作品的人一定知道,她的书,常常是抓马非凡----所以这次也是不例外。 不同于维多利亚三部曲,这本书是在一战后的英国。熟悉西方历史的便知道,一战过后,虽然英国算是战赢,但战争带来的,总是伤痕累累,无论输赢。这本书的设定是20世纪20年代,也就是说,不久西方...
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