Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?
Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.
In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
John Boyne (born 30 April 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he won the Curtis Brown prize. In 2015, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by UEA.
John Boyne is the author of ten novels for adults and five for young readers, as well as a collection of short stories.
His novels are published in over 50 languages.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which to date has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and a film adaptation was released in September 2008. Boyne resides in Dublin. He is represented by the literary agent Simon Trewin at WME in London, United Kingdom.
His most recent publication is the novel 'The Heart's Invisible Furies', published in the UK in February 2017. It will be published in the USA in August.
無庸置疑,《慍怒》是一部同志文學作品。如同華文世界最富盛名的同志經典《孽子》,愛爾蘭作家約翰.波恩在《慍怒》的開場隨即呈現出「罷家」的場景,無怪乎紀大偉曾論及:「『和家庭發生衝突』這種橋段儼如同性戀者的試金石,彷彿可以證明誰才最有資格自稱同性戀者。」話雖如...
評分無庸置疑,《慍怒》是一部同志文學作品。如同華文世界最富盛名的同志經典《孽子》,愛爾蘭作家約翰.波恩在《慍怒》的開場隨即呈現出「罷家」的場景,無怪乎紀大偉曾論及:「『和家庭發生衝突』這種橋段儼如同性戀者的試金石,彷彿可以證明誰才最有資格自稱同性戀者。」話雖如...
評分我是读了几个章节之后才发现,本书的作者就是《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》的作者 - 爱尔兰作家约翰·伯恩。《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》当年曾排在纽约时报的畅销书榜首,后来又被改编成了同名电影。但是因为从内容,写作手法等等方面,都完全没有相似度,我压根没有想到是同一个作者。这个发...
評分我是读了几个章节之后才发现,本书的作者就是《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》的作者 - 爱尔兰作家约翰·伯恩。《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》当年曾排在纽约时报的畅销书榜首,后来又被改编成了同名电影。但是因为从内容,写作手法等等方面,都完全没有相似度,我压根没有想到是同一个作者。这个发...
評分我是读了几个章节之后才发现,本书的作者就是《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》的作者 - 爱尔兰作家约翰·伯恩。《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》当年曾排在纽约时报的畅销书榜首,后来又被改编成了同名电影。但是因为从内容,写作手法等等方面,都完全没有相似度,我压根没有想到是同一个作者。这个发...
沒讀過James Joyce/Oscar Wild/Yeats等愛爾蘭大文豪的文盲如我,讀完瞭第一本關於愛爾蘭從backwater 1940到same sex marriage 2015史詩般的小說,簡直堪稱愛爾蘭同誌版“平凡的世界”。書裏太多耳熟能詳的都柏林的街道和地點,ballsbridge..grafton street..st.stephen's green park..ha'penny bridge..grand canal..river liffey..開始想到我愛爾蘭的同事也是朋友們,他們的父輩他們的祖母輩,代代承載的愛爾蘭遺風,意料之外情理之中地發現這會在他們平日的性格裏嘶嘶作響。和愛爾蘭於這兩年開始形成的關係說來奇妙,這曾在地圖上隻是個地名的小島,突然在生命裏變得意義豐滿。
评分Hassan M's recommendation. A history of Ireland over 80 years
评分天呐!這本書!太好看瞭!完全沉迷其中……從二戰結束講到21世紀,故事很長,但真的很好看!故事開篇我真的沒想到後麵是這樣的展開
评分實在是太好看瞭!挺長的本但是非常非常好看非常值得一看!書封那幾個形容詞tender, dark, hilarious, heartbreaking不能再閤適的錶露我對此書的所有復雜的情緒。我很開心最後我同主人公一般自己也給自己瞭一個closure。
评分可能是劇透:我真心覺得主角至死不渝最愛是死直男julian,有關bastiann的一切都太完美太不真實瞭。世上哪有逃離瞭一切苦難的天堂,bastiann隻存在於幻想裏,隻是一種哲學的悸動。julian纔是真正的,有血有肉的愛與癡迷。
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