[英]伊恩·麦奎尔(Ian McGuire)
成长于英国赫尔市,毕业于曼彻斯特大学和弗吉尼亚大学,是曼彻斯特大学创意写作中心的创始人兼副院长。小说曾发表于《芝加哥评论》《巴黎评论》等。他的首部小说是《难以置信的身体》(Incredible Bodies)。《北海鲸梦》是伊恩・麦奎尔的第二本小说,他擅长描写声音和气味,不论是捕鲸猎熊、开刀验尸,以及船员的南腔北调,都让人身临其境,写实程度不输给奥斯卡大赢家《荒野猎人》。
"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imagination." —Hilary Mantel
“This is a novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid, and insidiously witty, The North Water is a startling achievement.” —Martin Amis
A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.
Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage.
In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action. And as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: who will survive until spring?
With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions.
被人陷害而走投无路的军医不得已踏上捕鲸船北上。在驶往北极的旅程中险象环生,不同的选择导致每个人不一样的结局;血腥的场面,跌宕起伏的情节,意想不到的结局都让人欲罢不能!主角的描写很丰满,个人感觉在书中主角的很多重要的决定都是follow the heart,内心深处不可磨灭...
评分 评分《北海鲸梦》出版以后,我的朋友问我这部小说可不可以给她儿子看,我笑了一下,如果作为童话的话,这个故事可有点儿黑呀。 因为这不是一部跟花儿呀、温暖呀、阳光呀、诗呀有关的书。诚然,捕鲸的历程堪称史诗,但那是惨烈的、纯粹男性化的、挣扎在生与死的边缘的故事。 这是一...
有段时间没读这么爽的小说了。机缘巧合前些时候翻了一下the Last Mughal,补了一点历史背景。最后Drax的再次出现让我略叹息,感觉故事突然俗了。否则之前和Yaks以及熊有关的篇章都近乎寓言了——荒野中Christian morals湮灭,另一种更原始的神性被创造,太惊艳了。
评分Violent and sad. 濒死体验写得特别好。也可以看作是一本(毫无说教意味的)环保主义小说。
评分北方海域~算是泛读吧,真的吓人但也引人深思……
评分感觉有点毛骨悚然
评分文字生猛又冷峻,充滿戳刺感官的細節血肉。嚴酷蒼茫的北極海域如舞台,接連上演捕鯨血戰、殘忍命案與船難求生,無論對自然還是對同類,都在試探著文明缺席時獸性袒露的幅度。人性之惡被赤裸呈現而不加解釋,作者大概信奉性惡論。男主角在愛斯基摩女人對他開口說英文時,大為驚怒,叫她走開。
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