圖書標籤: Hanya_Yanagihara Fiction 至少不似想您般奧妙 美國 美國文學 柳原漢雅 日本 瞭
发表于2024-12-23
The People in the Trees pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
A Best Book of the Year
The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan
A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book
It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Disquieting yet thrilling, The People in the Trees is an anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in American fiction.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Driven by Yanagihara's gorgeously complete imaginary ethnography on the one hand and, on the other, by her brilliantly detestable narrator, this debut novel is compelling on every level—morally, aesthetically, and narratively. Yanagihara balances pulpy adventure tale excitement with serious consideration in unraveling her fantastical premise: a scientist, Norton Perina, discovers an island whose inhabitants may somehow have achieved immortality. Perina sets out on an anthropological mission that became more significant than he could have imagined. His tale raises interesting, if somewhat obvious, ethical questions; what can be justified in the name of science? How far does cultural relativism go? Is immortality really desirable? The book doesn't end with his astounding discovery, though. It continues with seeming banality to recount the predictable progression of academic honors that followed it and the swift and destructive attempt to commercialize Perina's findings. The story of Perina as a man emerges with less show but just as much gruesome fascination as that of his discovery and its results. Evidence of his character worms its way through the book in petulant asides and elided virulence, at first seeming incidental to the plot and then reflecting its moral themes on a small scale. Without making him a simple villain, Yanagihara shows how Perina's extraordinary circumstances allow his smothered weaknesses to blossom horribly. In the end, he reveals the full extent of his loathsomeness explicitly, unashamedly, convinced of his immutable moral right. (Aug. 13) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Debut novelist Yanagihara tackles some ambitious and deeply vexing scientific and personal conundrums. By way of protagonist Dr. Norton Perina’s memoir, the story unfolds of a “lost tribe” of Micronesian natives who have discovered the secret of immortality. At first anthropologist Paul Tallent and associate Esme Duff invite Perina along on what they describe as an investigation into a myth, but their real hope is to confirm the tribe’s existence. After many pages of overlong, obtuse, parenthetical sentences describing the island’s dense jungle, readers will be relieved when the team finally happens upon the fabled tribe. Despite the language barrier, Tallent convinces the leaders that the team means them no harm; they only want to learn about tribal customs. While the anthropologists take notes, Perina snoops around until he discovers the tribe’s secret to immortality and, in time, exploits and abuses it for his own despicable purposes. Perina is a delightfully black-hearted protagonist trapped inside Yanagihara’s unfortunately inelegant prose. --Donna Chavez --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
柳原漢雅(Hanya Yanagihara),1975年生於洛杉磯,現居紐約,日裔美國小說傢、旅行作傢。1995年畢業於史密斯女子學院,曾擔任過齣版社營銷助理,2007年成為旅遊雜誌編輯,2015年開始擔任《紐約時報》旗下的時尚雜誌《T》的副主編。她的第二部小說A Little Life曾入圍2015年布剋奬和國傢圖書奬。
Just wow... The hardest book ever. I won't even begin to give it a score.
評分一點一點爬完,一點一點下沉。
評分一點一點爬完,一點一點下沉。
評分三個月斷斷續續終於今天讀完瞭,太震驚瞭。值得讀第二遍第三遍的小說。
評分Just wow... The hardest book ever. I won't even begin to give it a score.
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