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发表于2024-11-23
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A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith.
Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a departure from nineteenth century and a spectacular leap forward in the career of this masterful storyteller.
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liasons, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of Londoners: three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in ways that are surprising not always known to them. In wartime London, the women work-as ambulance drivers, ministry clerks, and building inspectors. There are feats of heroism, epic and quotidian, and tragedies both enormous and personal, but the emotional interiors of her characters that Waters captures with absolute and intimacy.
Waters describes with perfect knowingness the taut composure of a rescue worker in the aftermath of a bombing, the idle longing of a young woman her soldier lover, the peculiar thrill convict watching the sky ignite through the bars on his window, the hunger a woman stalking the streets for encounter, and the panic of another who sees her love affair coming end. At the same time, Waters is absolute control of a narrative that offers up subtle surprises and exquisite twists, even as it depicts the impact grand historical event on individual lives.
Tender, tragic, and beautifully poignant, The Night Watch is a towering achievement that confirms its author as "one of the best storytellers alive today" (Independent on Sunday).
薩拉·沃特斯(Sarah Waters), 1966年齣生於英國威爾士,文學博士。
三度入圍“布剋奬”,兩度入圍“萊思紀念奬”。
曾獲“貝蒂·特拉斯剋文學奬”、“毛姆文學奬”。
被《星期日泰晤士報》評為“年度青年作傢”(2000)、文學雜誌《格蘭塔》選為“20位當代最好的英國青年作傢”之一(2003)、“英國圖書奬”評為“年度作傢”(2003)等,文學評論界稱其為“當今活著的英語作傢中最會講故事的作傢”。
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The Night Watch pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024