Fredrik Backman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. His books are being published around the world in more than thirty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.
Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly mean everything to Amat, a short, scrawny teenager who is treated like an outcast everywhere but on the ice; to Kevin, a star player just on the cusp of securing his golden future in the NHL; and to Peter, their dedicated general manager whose own professional hockey career ended in tragedy.
At first, it seems like the team might have a shot at fulfilling the dreams of their entire town. But one night at a drunken celebration following a key win, something happens between Kevin and the general manager’s daughter—and the next day everything seems to have changed. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. With so much riding on the success of the team, the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes difficult to discern. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.
Fredrik Backman knows that we are forever shaped by the places we call home, and in this emotionally powerful, sweetly insightful story, he explores what can happen when we carry the heavy weight of other people's dreams on our shoulders.
文/舒念 《熊镇》的33万字,全是关于一座小镇的故事。 一个小镇可以有很多人,但却只有一件大事,当我们全情贯注于自身的时候,我们无法认识到彼与此的同一性,小镇可以是一个多数人的避难所,也会成为一个少数人的处,因为人们常常无法分辨是与非,他们只有在经历了足够多之后...
評分 評分 評分 評分I'm not entirely happy about the flow of the writing and what seems like an unnecessary string of side characters. But darn, this is some powerful stuff.
评分跟之前Hungting Ground裏講的Jamies Winston的故事有著驚人的重閤。The culture of rape is real.
评分看到一半不得不停下來緩緩纔能繼續,身為女性活在男權世界實在有太多的不易。前麵的超長鋪墊更是凸顯瞭之後女孩爆發的勇氣,真正的 “Us against the world”. (翻譯三連贊,用詞又美又流暢,和陰冷的Beartown相比,有種淒厲的美。)
评分I was so wrong for assuming that this will be a hockey version of Friday Night Light. This should be the book of the year 2017, given the exposure of Weinstein event.
评分強烈推薦!
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