Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was raised in London where he lives today. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. After these studies, he worked as a scriptwriter.
His first novel, Child 44, about a series of child murders in Stalinist Russia, appeared in early 2008 and was translated into 17 languages. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year by the Crime Writer's Association. It was recently a Barnes & Noble recommended book. On July 29, 2008 the book was named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In November 2008, he was nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread).
Child 44 followed-up by The Secret Speech (2009)and Agent 6 (2011).
MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
《44号孩子》是英国作家汤姆•罗伯•史密斯的处女作,读罢确有惊艳之感,不得不说那些让作者载誉的奖项当属实至名归。 小说开篇就以追捕为缘起,把读者带入了紧张而离奇的推理氛围当中,孩子们在追捕骨瘦如柴的猫,为了喂食同样形容枯槁的自己和家人,熟不知他们已...
評分我在写评论的时候,曾经经常愿意把“人性”这个词装饰进文章中,而大多数情况下除了能让文章显得冠冕堂皇一些之外,我并不清楚我为什么要加这个词,因为我还不完全清楚这个词的真正意义。我也曾经常的想,人性究竟是什么,而哪些又算是人性的特征,人性中所有的都是美好而善良...
評分 評分翻译基本靠谱,从风格上来说,本书应该适用简短有力的句子,可有可无的字眼都应该删掉,如果译文能更简洁一点会更好。 可能美中不足的地方在于有些名词的翻译不太好。第96页提到的“尼基塔·克鲁什切夫”,其实就是赫鲁晓夫,此处的人名译法似乎不妥(奇怪的是本书结尾处对赫鲁...
評分《44号孩子》是英国作家汤姆•罗伯•史密斯的处女作,读罢确有惊艳之感,不得不说那些让作者载誉的奖项当属实至名归。 小说开篇就以追捕为缘起,把读者带入了紧张而离奇的推理氛围当中,孩子们在追捕骨瘦如柴的猫,为了喂食同样形容枯槁的自己和家人,熟不知他们已...
敘述非常流暢,也許太流暢瞭,閱讀時幾乎不用動大腦,作者把方方麵麵都交代得太清楚瞭。所以,和嚴肅文學比,這本書和所有暢銷書一樣擁有完美的story,但缺失narrative。另,故事裏有兩個顯而易見的賣點:1)英國式的腐; 2)歐美對蘇聯的政治意淫(與《紅色十月號》一個路子)。
评分還敢再精彩點麼?拍電影吧拍電影吧…
评分這偵探小說像1984真實版,關於連環殺人案的內容其實挺少的,而且情節透露比較早,略好猜,2/3的是後男主父母那封信基本可以讓人聯想前因後果。劇情完全是靠奇葩的基情(誤 其實是惡意 來推動的。喜歡女主角蠻討喜的,機智勇敢而且還比較果斷。
评分敘述非常流暢,也許太流暢瞭,閱讀時幾乎不用動大腦,作者把方方麵麵都交代得太清楚瞭。所以,和嚴肅文學比,這本書和所有暢銷書一樣擁有完美的story,但缺失narrative。另,故事裏有兩個顯而易見的賣點:1)英國式的腐; 2)歐美對蘇聯的政治意淫(與《紅色十月號》一個路子)。
评分Leo,你被這麼多變態深深地愛著你還有什麼不滿意的啊,不要再幻滅瞭,好好為人民服務吧
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