An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at novels.
Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers. Her website is at naominovik.com
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
每个人都要与自己的根和平相处 每个人都要与自己的根和平相处,不管这根是好的还是不好的,其实也就是我们的原生家庭、遗传性格,等等。没有谁可以强大到彻底抛弃自己的原有和过去,我们的现在不过都是建立在过去的基础之上的。讲和,不那么容易,但都是我们要做的妥协。生命...
評分《无根之木》是一部立世宝典(认真脸),有怎样的疑问,在读的过程中都能找到想要的答案。 生而为人,欲望总是源源不断,有时如泉水溪流,有时如江河大海……有时声声作响,有时奔腾咆哮(想笑)。 不知道是什么时候,我开始意识到,自己的性格在生活中产生诸多负面影响(比如...
評分 評分可能,更适合青少年看?看过为数不多的科幻都是阿西莫夫的机器人和基地系列还有三体,所以关于设定和世界观我可能。。评价不太客观?这本书的脉络很清晰,关于少女成长,关于情绪和人性的描写都比较真实和易懂,有助于认清自己的情绪并且接纳这样一个不完美的自己;关于龙君,...
評分乍一翻开2016年美国科幻星云奖最佳长篇小说《无根之木》,读者可能会感觉不屑:这看起来就是一个已经被写过无数遍的最传统的奇幻小说,甚至像是个童话——一个被称作“龙”的可怖巫师每十年都从村落里挑选一个处女作为献祭品,这十年间,村里的人包括女主角阿格涅什卡都以为会...
今年的星雲奬作品。這幫評委終於開竅瞭,前兩年的獲奬作品要麼賣情懷要麼賣文藝。小說還是要有個吸引人的故事纔好...
评分不是很懂這個套路為甚麼可以是星雲奬,題材保護大自然麼?Wood描述得太可怕瞭,女主的技能太bug瞭,Dragon抓瞭這麼多年的妹子,還是這麼智障啊,不能忍。要不是買瞭小姐姐朗讀的AB我真要棄…
评分他...他是...龍...以青少年奇幻水準能給四星吧,影像化成一部B級青春片沒問題,故事還算好看啊,能夠很順的讀下去,隻是那個五十度斯內普的評論一直在腦海裏揮之不去...
评分女神!
评分呃……有點小失望,文筆好但是故事挺一般的還很瑪麗蘇……龍叔百年單身學霸大魔法師還沒女主個小毛孩子厲害的樣子好憋屈
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