From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives.
Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past.
Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date.
迈克尔•翁达杰(Michael Ondaatje,1943-)出生于斯里兰卡,十一岁时随母亲移居英国,十九岁移居加拿大,并在那里接受教育。他出版过五本小说、一本回忆录、一本关于电影的非虚构作品和几部诗集。他于一九九二年出版的小说《英国病人》(The English Patient)荣获布克奖,后被改编成同名电影,二〇〇〇年出版的小说《菩萨凝视的岛屿》(Anil’s Ghost)获吉尔奖和美第奇奖。二〇〇七年出版小说《遥望》(Divisadero),获得加拿大总督文学奖。他现居多伦多。
好处就不说了,和《英国病人》比起来这部好处不明显,坏处比较多(说实话我也只看过作者这两部)。这里单说问题。 笔力弱,各方面都很散,缺乏一以贯之的整体性。所以我不是被吸引着读下去的而是强迫自己看完的。经常看一会想弃了,又对自己说,耐心点,可能都是铺垫,说不定...
评分人民文学出版社的封面与Knopf出版《Divisadero》的封面一模一样。第一遍读完的时候,我总以为应该用它的西班牙语之意——“分裂”,后来再读,却又开始认同他借安娜之口的另外一个解释——安娜居住过的旧金山一个街道的名字,叫做《遥望》。当一束光照在封面上那“蓝色”的桌子...
评分好处就不说了,和《英国病人》比起来这部好处不明显,坏处比较多(说实话我也只看过作者这两部)。这里单说问题。 笔力弱,各方面都很散,缺乏一以贯之的整体性。所以我不是被吸引着读下去的而是强迫自己看完的。经常看一会想弃了,又对自己说,耐心点,可能都是铺垫,说不定...
评分《外滩画报》2011年4月 我们完全可以说,这本书的结构决定了它的世界观,正如它的书名所昭示的那样,分裂和分裂之间的相互致意——遥望。如果作者迈克尔·翁达杰是个致力于搭建小说的结构与它的内在机理的作家,这一点应该会表现得更分明一些。毕竟,以时空交错的方式,小说...
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