Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.
When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia’s older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it’s the youngest of the family—Hannah—who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened.
A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
本书的英文名《那些我从未告诉你的事》,就是这本书的概括。那些事,是近在咫尺的亲人也未必了然于心的,甚至,仍然充满了误解。透过这个少数族群的题材,作者所写的乃是人类共同的处境。人的沟通是可能的吗?如果不能,那就让作家让这一切实现,于是就有了这本《无声告白》。 ...
評分<无声告白>是那种让人忍不住一气读完的书,它不是严格意义上的悬疑罪案小说,但结构安排上,可谓技艺精湛,引人入胜。从作者取材来看,一本处女作,伍绮诗选择故事发生在1977年,可以说是精明之举。避开现在这个喧嚣的时代背景,却又集合了女权,种族歧视,婚外恋,同性恋,青...
評分To be honest I haven't read such an overwhelming novel in ages. Well technically any novels just to be fair. It has everything a thriller should have: A missing/dead girl, a seemingly normal family that had something weird buried in somewhere, a strange b...
評分在莎士比亚的世界里,悲剧分为命运的悲剧和性格的悲剧,前者是无常的强大世界对弱小人类的捉弄和摧毁,后者则是人类自身的缺点所导致的灾难——悲剧的中心总是人类,然而如果真以人类为中心去考虑的话,所有悲剧的来源其实只有一个——无知,亦可以说是佛教中所说的“无明”。 ...
評分未经授权,不得转载! 《无声告白》是一本光芒万丈的小说。 伍绮诗历时六年,写下她的第一部作品,一经出版便获得了令所有人艳羡的成就:横扫欧美各大榜单,还获得了2014美国亚马逊最佳图书第一名。既叫好又叫座,面世至今,仍然在排行榜上占据傲人的排名。 外界光环之下,...
讀(聽)瞭兩遍, 還是沒有打動我. 故事情節閤乎情理, 也許是過於閤理, 完全在意料之中.
评分是個一般的暢銷書套路,但是對於美國的跨種族婚姻不乏一些真知灼見。作為一個中國人在俄亥俄的小城裏生活過很久,我隻能說所有的描述都有點真實的可怕。對於父母和孩子的關係,父母沒有放棄的夢想總會成為孩子的魔。
评分是個一般的暢銷書套路,但是對於美國的跨種族婚姻不乏一些真知灼見。作為一個中國人在俄亥俄的小城裏生活過很久,我隻能說所有的描述都有點真實的可怕。對於父母和孩子的關係,父母沒有放棄的夢想總會成為孩子的魔。
评分太壓抑瞭。就想快點讀完逃離這個故事。除瞭父母以外,裏麵關於race的描寫又很貼切真實,真實到刺眼。
评分讀的時候感覺MFA訓練齣來的痕跡很重,利用各種小細節來體現人物、時不時用些聰明的錶達來體現作者的文筆,一查果然是創意寫作齣來的。這本小說作為她的第一本書的確可圈可點,有些橋段也蠻能引起共鳴,然而終究拋不開刻意兩個字,匠氣還是重瞭
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