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The Whale Caller pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him. The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests, in the words of "The Washington Post," that "the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."
读正午故事,想起Zakes Mda这位早已在英语文学世界扬名的南非作家,我是从他的小说开始了解后种族隔离期(post-apartheid)南非的种种混乱残忍。背景设在观鲸(南露脊鲸)胜地赫曼努斯,男主人公即唤鲸人,迷恋一条名叫Sharisha的鲸鱼,常吹号角唤之前来。结尾处鲸鱼在长久失踪后现身,循号角声欢喜地游向他,却不幸搁浅,最终被内部引爆。唤鲸人因此深恶自己, 决定禁欲,以此赎罪。另有一爱恋唤鲸人的酗酒女人,常去照顾一对备觉无聊的孪生姐妹。天使和恶魔集于一身的白衣姐妹, 把怕黑的她锁进地窖,游戏般以乱石砸死她。初读时感觉处处隐喻,却抓不住。这些暴力和诡异的情节, 作家在访谈中说,都是随小说人物自然生成,而人物就是他们所在的自然、社会和政治环境本身。
评分读正午故事,想起Zakes Mda这位早已在英语文学世界扬名的南非作家,我是从他的小说开始了解后种族隔离期(post-apartheid)南非的种种混乱残忍。背景设在观鲸(南露脊鲸)胜地赫曼努斯,男主人公即唤鲸人,迷恋一条名叫Sharisha的鲸鱼,常吹号角唤之前来。结尾处鲸鱼在长久失踪后现身,循号角声欢喜地游向他,却不幸搁浅,最终被内部引爆。唤鲸人因此深恶自己, 决定禁欲,以此赎罪。另有一爱恋唤鲸人的酗酒女人,常去照顾一对备觉无聊的孪生姐妹。天使和恶魔集于一身的白衣姐妹, 把怕黑的她锁进地窖,游戏般以乱石砸死她。初读时感觉处处隐喻,却抓不住。这些暴力和诡异的情节, 作家在访谈中说,都是随小说人物自然生成,而人物就是他们所在的自然、社会和政治环境本身。
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The Whale Caller pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024