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发表于2025-03-16
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On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.
When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.
Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.
Elsa Hart was born in Rome, Italy, but her earliest memories are of Moscow, where her family lived until 1991. Since then she has lived in the Czech Republic, the U.S.A., and China. She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She wrote Jade Dragon Mountain in Lijiang, the city formerly known as Dayan. It is her first novel.
以康熙年间耶稣会士为背景的侦探小说,情节、人物、语言、结构样样精彩。历史部分也写得很逼真,作者不愧“中国通”的名声。
评分我不太清楚如今有多少西方作家在仿照高罗佩的狄公案,之前看过Frederic Lenormand的新狄公案,就给我留下了非常深刻的印象。而Elsa Hart的这本玉龙雪山显然功力更为深厚,作者对于晚清明末这段历史可谓相当熟悉,书中以此为背景,讲述了一位西方传教士被人毒害身亡,因文字狱而被流放至此的Li Du拨开层层迷雾,最终查出了凶手身份以及杀人动机,从这点来说其可读性丝毫不亚于高罗佩的狄公案。不过也许作者太想过于表现出自己对中国历史的了解和喜好,感觉这方面的描写有些喧宾夺主。
评分Librarians, Jesuits, traveling scholars, astronomer and storyteller....期望值有点高,所以后面有些失望. 总的来说仍然是非常西方的叙事手法,建构在一个东方的背景里。以及,好多句式感觉似曾相识,有点“套路”。开头时用英文读中国故事的那种熟悉的陌生感逐渐被消解了。 P.S. Kangxi 前面加个定冠词the是什么用法,感觉很别扭。
评分外国人写的以清代西南边陲为场景的推理,虽然主线由耶稣会与多明我会的冲突推动,人物的身份使得情节很容易推测,但在边域/官场氛围的塑造上颇见工夫,并不出戏。(kindle版中国亚马逊竟然比美亚贵很多,太不合理)以后应该会有中文版吧。
评分情节略平庸,但胜在氛围塑造得不错。
这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分这是一个外国人写的康熙时期的推理小说。在云南与西藏边境的小城大研(丽江),因友人的文字狱被牵连的主人公李杜,被流放后云游至此地。意外得知六天后康熙帝会来到大研,与大研的百姓一起观看日食。因为这个重大的庆典,康熙帝也邀请外国人前来参观。李杜本想交换通牒后立即...
评分疫情原因宅在家里,倒是让我有时间看完这部令人着迷的推理小说。看完之后,颇多感慨。 如果以纯推理小说来看的话,这本书不太合格。主线略显平庸,行文不疾不徐,高潮来的晚,也没有奇峰迭起的情节设定。 但是,必须说但是!这部看似乏味的小说却有一股迷人的魔力!令人欲罢不...
Jade Dragon Mountain pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025