"Outstanding in both its structure and its questioning of faith, this offering is not to be missed." -Kirkus Reviews (STARRED Review) "Best of all is the shocking surprise that changes everything, even Papa-a haunting aspect of the immigrant story left too long untold." -Booklist (STARRED Review) The future for Jews in rural villages of Russia in 1905 held little promise. Stories of pogroms seeped through the countryside, and the czar was conscripting soldiers because of rumors of war and revolution. Benjamin Balaban, a poor but very devout Jew, determines to flee to America. He will take Raizel, his almost-twelve-year-old daughter, and once they are settled he will send for his wife and other children. Raizel doesn't understand the reasons for leaving. How can her village be dangerous? It's full of magic and the stories and poems that her grandmother Bubba tells her. But go she must. Her odyssey with her father across Russia and Europe and on to America is full of adventure, adversity, and hardship. She desperately misses her family, but she retells Bubba's stories to keep her memories alive. Finally, they board a ship for America, but a terrible storm makes Raizel and her father sick. All their food is stolen, and Benjamin won't eat non-kosher food. At Ellis Island, his long beard and ear locks, his peasant clothes, his deep cough, and emaciated frame get them turned away from America. Raizel, though, is now determined to get back to America and the hope of a new life for her whole family. She must convince her father that he'll have to give up his orthodox food and traditions and put on the clothes of his new country. She and her father both will have to leave everything behind to make their final crossing to America. Double Crossing is the winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People and the Skipping Stones Honor Award, and is a Notable Book for a Global Society and a Notable Children's Book of Jewish Content. Eve Tal was born in 1947 in New York City. She lives on Kibbutz Hatzor with her husband and three sons.
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坦率地说,我对这本书的整体感觉是震撼且充满敬意的。它成功地在商业性和艺术性之间找到了一个近乎完美的平衡点。故事的吸引力毋庸置疑,悬念层层递进,情节环环相扣,让人根本无法放下,强烈的阅读冲动贯穿始终。但同时,它又拥有足够深刻的主题和复杂的文学技巧,使得它具有很高的重读价值。这本书的伟大之处可能在于,它成功地让读者在享受一个精彩故事的同时,也被迫去面对一些人生中难以回避的宏大命题,比如信任的脆弱、选择的代价,以及个体在巨大命运洪流中的微小力量。它没有给出简单的答案,而是提供了一个广阔的平台,让读者自行去碰撞、去思考。我向所有寻求深度、追求精妙叙事技巧的读者强烈推荐这本书,它不仅仅是一次阅读消费,更像是一次对思维边界的拓展和精神世界的洗礼,读完之后,感觉自己的思考维度似乎都被拓宽了不少。
评分从文学性的角度来看,这本书无疑是一次大胆而成功的尝试。作者似乎毫不吝啬地运用了各种修辞手法,但所有的华丽辞藻都没有成为叙事的负担,反而像丝绸一样,为故事增添了迷人的光泽和质感。它的语言风格变化多端,有时是冷峻犀利的散文体,直击要害;有时又是温柔抒情的诗意表达,描摹情感的微妙波动。特别是那些充满哲思的金句,我甚至忍不住摘抄下来,贴在我的工作桌前,它们时常能为我带来新的视角去审视生活中的困境。阅读过程中,我体验到了一种文字的力量,它不仅仅是信息的载体,更是艺术的结晶。那些对环境、光影、声音的细致捕捉,让人感觉仿佛进入了一个立体的、有气味的阅读空间。这种高水准的文字驾驭能力,使得这本书超越了一般的娱乐作品,更接近于一种文学体验。对于追求文本美感的读者来说,这本书绝对是不可多得的享受,每一次重读都会发现新的语言上的惊喜。
评分这本书的结构设计简直是鬼斧神工,我得说,我很少看到有哪部作品能将多线叙事处理得如此流畅而又富有张力。故事的各个分支看似独立,却又在关键时刻以一种出人意料的方式交汇融合,这种精妙的布局让人在阅读过程中充满了探索的乐趣,总忍不住猜测下一个转折点会是什么。更难能可贵的是,尽管线索繁多,但作者的逻辑链条始终清晰可见,没有丝毫的混乱或牵强感。每一次线索的收拢都带来了强烈的“原来如此”的顿悟感,极大地满足了读者的智力上的挑战欲。我特别喜欢作者在构建复杂关系网时所展现出的耐心和细致,每一个角色的动机都被赋予了充分的合理性,即便是反派人物,也能从中窥见人性的幽暗与复杂,而不是脸谱化的符号。这种对人性的多维度挖掘,使得整个故事的厚度大大增加,让人在合上书本后,依然能感受到那些人物的呼吸和心跳。它就像一个精密运作的钟表,每一个齿轮都咬合得恰到好处,共同推动着故事走向一个宏大而又令人信服的结局。
评分这本新书真是让人耳目一新,作者的笔触细腻得仿佛能触摸到故事中的每一个细节。我尤其欣赏它对人物内心世界的刻画,那种挣扎、迷茫与最终的释然,都展现得淋漓尽致。读到某个情节时,我甚至能清晰地感受到主角那种深入骨髓的孤独感,仿佛自己也置身于那个特定的时空背景之下。叙事节奏的掌控也堪称一绝,时而紧凑得让人屏住呼吸,时而又舒缓得让人有时间去细细品味那些哲理性的思考。比如,书中关于时间流逝的探讨,它不是那种空洞的说教,而是通过具体的事件和人物的遭遇自然而然地渗透出来,让人在不知不觉中陷入沉思,反思自身的生活轨迹。而且,作者对场景的描绘极其生动,无论是灯火阑珊的都市夜景,还是寂静无人的乡间小路,都跃然纸上,极大地增强了阅读的沉浸感。这本书的魅力就在于,它不只是在讲一个故事,更是在引导读者进行一场深刻的自我对话,非常值得细细品味和反复阅读,那种回味悠长的感觉,是很多快餐式阅读无法比拟的。
评分这本书所构建的世界观给我留下了极其深刻的印象。它不是那种架空奇幻的设定,而是建立在对现实世界细致入微的观察和想象之上的,带有一种强烈的现实主义底色,却又巧妙地融入了某些超乎寻常的元素,形成了一种独特的“魔幻现实主义”的氛围。作者对社会结构、权力运作以及边缘人群生存状态的描摹,展现出惊人的洞察力。书中对某些特定职业群体的内部运作逻辑的解构尤为精彩,揭示了许多光鲜外表下的真实与无奈。这种深度的社会批判性,并没有让故事变得沉重乏味,反而因为主角们在这样的大背景下的不屈抗争,更显出人性的光辉与韧性。我特别欣赏作者处理信息披露的节奏,那些关于世界运行规则的“揭秘”部分,总是拿捏得恰到好处,既满足了读者的好奇心,又保持了足够的悬念,让整个阅读过程充满了发现的乐趣,让人不禁思考我们所生活的世界,究竟隐藏了多少不为人知的机制。
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